CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu calls on OSCE to examine heavy government pressure on Turkish media
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has urged the Assembly of Parliamentarians of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in...
Turkish government bans over 100,000 web pages
A worrying number of websites and pages have been banned by the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to an article written...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Deputy Meral Danış Beştaş arrested
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş, who was detained and then released after she gave her testimony on Saturday, was arrested...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 110 former employees of Kaynak Holding
Detention warrants were issued for 110 former owners, executives and employees of Kaynak Holding, which was seized by the government in November 2015 due...
Turkish gov’t detained 2,426 people in January over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 623 people have been detained in one week over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
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