Police fire tear gas at protesters outside main opposition’s İstanbul office amid leadership battle
Turkish police fired tear gas and detained several people on Monday as they moved to disperse opposition supporters gathered outside the İstanbul headquarters of...
Lawyers tell ECtHR Turkey has kept Kavala jailed on same discredited evidence despite Strasbourg...
Lawyers for imprisoned Turkish businessman and civil society figure Osman Kavala told the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday that Turkey has...
53 teachers died by suicide after dismissal from their jobs: labor union
Fifty-three teachers died by suicide in Turkey after being dismissed from their jobs by emergency decree-laws in the aftermath of a coup attempt in...
Protesters condemn armed attack on Turkish newspaper office
Dozens of journalists, representatives of political parties, unions and civil society groups gathered Wednesday in the western city of İzmir to denounce an armed...
Turkey’s top appeals court says former interior minister should pay damages to academic over...
The Supreme Court of Appeals has said in a judgment that former interior minister Süleyman Soylu should pay non-pecuniary damages to academic Baskın Oran...
MP claims Turkish military installed scanners, is strip-searching inhabitants of Kurdish village
The Turkish military has set up X-ray scanners at the entrance of a Kurdish-majority village in southeast Turkey and has allegedly been strip-searching incoming...
Court sentences 7 journalists to 18 days over photos taken at Kobani hearing
A Turkish court has sentenced seven journalists to 18 days in prison for allegedly recording audio and video during the final hearing of the...
Şenyaşar family seeks justice before regional appeals court in southeastern Turkey
Lawyers for the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding justice for three of their relatives murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from the...
Turkey’s media watchdog warns broadcasters against personal comments on mayor’s detention
In a move seen by many as an act of intimidation and censorship, Turkey’s media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has...
Jailed businessman, philanthropist Osman Kavala back in court, remanded again
Turkey’s leading activist Osman Kavala, who at the weekend marked his 1,600th day in prison without conviction, appeared before court Monday for the first...
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