Turkey restores access to Ekşi Sözlük forum after top court decision
The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) has lifted an almost year-long access ban on popular social media platform Ekşi Sözlük following a recent decision by the country’s...
Turkey’s media watchdog warns broadcasters it is monitoring NATO summit coverage
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has told media outlets to cover this week’s NATO summit in Ankara from a “national security” perspective and warned that their...
Turkish appeals court overturns reinstatement of dismissed academics
An appeals court in Ankara has overturned a lower court ruling to reinstate Taha Karaman and Hafize Öztürk Türkmen, academics who were dismissed in...
Turkish prosecutors order nearly 1,000 detentions over alleged Gülen links ahead of coup anniversary
Turkish prosecutors on Monday ordered the detention of 968 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which Ankara accuses of orchestrating a...
Sister of journalist found dead in SE Turkey
Rojvelat Kızmaz, the sister of journalist Mehmet Kızmaz who was reported missing on Friday, has been found dead in a dam in southeast Turkey,...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court finds rights violation in journalist’s arrest over Gülen condolence post
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the pretrial detention of journalist Kazım Güleçyüz over a social media post expressing condolences following the death of...
Sexually harassed underage female employee told by boss to ‘get used to it’
A female high school student who was allegedly subjected to sexual harassment while working at a logistics firm in İstanbul was told by her...
Jailed veteran journalist İbrahim Karayeğen: Zaman daily has no ties with terrorism
Jailed veteran journalist İbrahim Karayeğen (52), a night-shift editor at Zaman newspaper, one-time Turkey’s largest circulated newspaper before the government unlawful takeover and closure...
Five children, 90-year-old among 20 detained at Turkish mining protest
Turkish gendarmes detained some 20 people, including five 14-year-old teenagers and a 90-year-old woman, on Wednesday after local residents blocked heavy machinery from entering...
Another purge victim dies of cancer
Hamza Erdoğan, a former police officer who was fired over his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen-movement, has died of brain cancer in the...
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