2 prosecutors, 3 Court of Accounts inspectors removed from jobs due to alleged Gülen...
Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has expelled two prosecutors, while the Court of Accounts has relieved three inspectors of their duties...
Turkey to deport 2 Kurdish journalists back to Iran, putting their lives at risk
Two Kurdish journalists from Iranian Kurdistan are facing imminent deportation from Turkey to Iran, where they fear for their lives, Turkish Minute reported on...
YouTube journalist, man who read a poem in street interview arrested for insulting Erdoğan
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of YouTube journalist Hasan Köksoy and Halil Kürklü, who recited a poem during one of Köksoy’s...
Freedom House says Turkey’s 2023 elections were unfair, opposition suppressed
Washington-based advocacy organization Freedom House has in its latest report referred to the elections in Turkey last May as “unfair” and said they were held amid...
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...
Turkey braces for momentous runoff after election drama
Turkey braced Monday for its first election runoff after a night of high drama showed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan edging ahead of his secular...
Opposition MP voices outrage over imprisonment of 64-year-old woman on terrorism charges
Mustafa Yeneroğlu, a deputy from Turkey’s DEVA Party, urged authorities yesterday to immediately release 64-year-old Fatma Yurt, who was arrested on terrorism charges for...
Turkish court hands down suspended sentences to 2 business leaders over gov’t criticism
A Turkish court on Friday handed down suspended sentences to two senior executives of the country’s leading business group over speeches critical of government...
Turkey’s top appeals court to decide on jailed opposition MP despite Constitutional Court judgment:...
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has announced that the authorities will wait for a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeals in the case...
Dismissed academic gets 10 years in prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of 10 years to an academic who had been dismissed from her job in the...
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