Turkish court keeps veteran journalist Fatih Altaylı in jail
A Turkish court on Thursday ordered veteran journalist Fatih Altaylı to remain in jail more than 100 days after his arrest on charges of...
Journalist given suspended sentence due to social media posts
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended 15-month sentence to a Kurdish journalist on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in her social media...
Journalist gets 6 years in prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a jail sentence of six years, three months to a journalist on conviction of terrorist organization membership due...
RTÜK fines opposition TV stations over coverage of assault on main opposition leader
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s broadcasting and streaming regulator, has imposed administrative fines on two television stations over their coverage of...
Turkey detains 76 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 76 people in two separate operations targeting people accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish media reported.
The...
Turkey ranked 48th among 191 countries in UN Human Development Index
Turkey was ranked 48th in the 2021-2022 Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday, Turkish Minute reported.
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Plight of former teacher who died from rare blood disorder reveals extent of Turkey’s...
Mürüvvet Tunç, a former teacher dismissed from her job by a government decree following a 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, died of a rare...
Court drops new case against Dink’s convicted killer due to statute of limitations
A Turkish court has ruled to drop a case in which Ogün Samast, the convicted murderer of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, is accused of...
Family of missing Syrian human rights activist says they feel unsafe in Turkey
The wife of Ahmed Katie, a Syrian human rights activist who went missing in İstanbul in late November, has announced that she and her...
UN special rapporteurs condemn charges against İstanbul bar over call for journalist death probe
United Nations human rights special rapporteurs on Friday sharply criticized the criminal charges against the president and 10 board members of the İstanbul Bar...
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