Erdoğan pushed for punishment of 16-year-old girl accused of insulting him
A 16-year-old girl in İstanbul was given a suspended sentence of more than 10 months of incarceration on December 12 for allegedly insulting President...
Turkey’s top appeals court overturns sentences of 31 privates in 2016 attempted coup case
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of 31 soldiers sentenced to life in prison over their alleged involvement in a 2016...
Journalist Nevşin Mengü faces more than 7 years in prison over interview with Kurdish...
Turkish journalist Nevşin Mengü faces up to seven and a half years in prison after publishing an interview with Salih Müslim, one of the...
Katırcıoğlu family companies, wealth seized over Gülen links transferred to Turkey’s treasury
Four companies and the private assets of the Katırcıoğlu family seized by the Turkish government in 2015 over allegations of links to the faith-based...
Turkey detains 32 more over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police detained 32 individuals in their homes on Tuesday over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated operations...
Union members describe strip-search abuse in Turkish prison
Several union members arrested in Turkey’s Aydın province say they were subjected to humiliating strip-searches in prison, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on...
Turkish philanthropist Melek İpek decries ‘great injustice’ from prison
Melek İpek, the 78-year-old mother of self-exiled businessman Akın İpek and a well-regarded philanthropist, said from prison that she has suffered a “great injustice”...
German press association urges Turkey to investigate Kurdish journalists’ death in Turkish drone strike
The German Association of Journalists (DJV) has called on the Turkish government to clarify the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two Kurdish journalists in...
HRW calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting Kurdish language activities
Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Turkey to end prosecutions equating Kurdish language and cultural activities with terrorism, calling the practice discriminatory and an abuse of...
Police detain 30 protesting killing of 2 Kurdish journalists by Turkish drone strike
Turkish police detained 30 people, including 20 journalists, during a protest in İstanbul on Saturday against the killing of two Kurdish journalists in a...
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