23 face detention in Turkey due to social media posts about Ankara bombing
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 23 people over their messages on social media about a terrorist attack in Ankara on Sunday that...
Police detain 167 across Turkey over alleged links to PKK, ISIL
Turkish security forces have detained 167 people including a journalist on suspicion of membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic...
Top AKP lawmaker accuses opposition MP of spreading Gülenist propaganda over plight of children
A senior member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) accused an opposition lawmaker of disseminating propaganda for the Gülen movement after he...
Turkey accused of targeting Kurds in retaliatory airstrikes following Ankara suicide bombing
Recent Turkish airstrikes in northeastern Syria in response to a suicide bombing in Ankara on Sunday for which the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed...
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog imposes program ban, fine on pro-opposition Halk TV
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s government regulator for broadcasting, has imposed a five-time program ban as well as an upper limit...
Opposition party vice chair acknowledges systematic torture of supporters of the Gülen movement
Ahmet Zeki Üçok, vice chair of the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party, after a visit to two journalists who were recently imprisoned, said they...
Turkey again among ‘not free’ countries in internet freedom: Freedom House report
Internet freedom in Turkey has steadily declined over the past decade, with the country again ranking among the “not free” countries concerning online freedoms,...
Turkey released Kazakh ISIL suspect wanted by INTERPOL for lack of evidence
Turkish authorities have released pending trial a Kazakh national wanted by INTERPOL on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...
37 more alleged PKK members detained in connection to Ankara suicide bombing
Turkish security forces have detained 37 more people with alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in connection to a suicide attack in Ankara...
ECtHR faults Turkey for violating freedom of expression in terrorism, insult cases
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey over the conviction of two individuals on charges of “disseminating propaganda for a terrorist...
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