Journalists Çapan, Ulu and Olgun sent behind the bars in Turkey
The managing editor of the now-closed Nokta magazine journalist Murat Çapan, who was sentenced to 22 years, six months in prison for two cover...
Former pro-Kurdish politician Ata released after 6 months in jail
A high criminal court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Thursday decided to release former pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Ayla...
Turkey will refrain from providing further information on Kavala case to OHCHR
A letter recently sent by the Turkish Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for...
Turkey votes over giving extreme powers to autocratic President Erdoğan amid voting frauds
More than 55 million Turkish citizens began voting across the country on Sunday in a historic referendum proposing constitutional changes, including giving extreme and...
Turkish Parliament Speaker Kahraman calls Afrin operation ‘jihad’
İsmail Kahraman, Turkish Parliament's Speaker described on Saturday that Turkish military offensive against US-backed Kurdish armed groups in northern Syria’s Afrin as “jihad.”
Kahraman’s use...
Turkish gov’t detains 16 military and police officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 16 military officers, military students and police officers in 10 provinces across Turkey on Saturday as part of its massive...
Turkish court arrests prominent lawyer Kavili over his defense for client
Prominent Turkish lawyer Ömer Kavili, who was detained after his discussion with a judge in a case where the members of Grup Yorum music...
9 civilians arrested, 15 military members detained over Gülen links
Nine civilians have been arrested while 15 military members were detained in separate police operations targeting alleged followers of the Gülen movement, accused by...
Turkish court sentences pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Öcalan to 2.5 years for terror propaganda
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Dilek Öcalan, a niece of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the...
Veteran Turkish Journalist Hasan Cemal: A case where universal principles of law forgotten
By Hasan Cemal (*)
İstanbul's Silivri Prison, December 8, 2017. It is 10:35.
The case of Zaman daily writers.
They come in single row again, the gendarmerie...
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