10 members of communist party briefly detained for allegedly stealing from AFAD
Turkish police on Thursday briefly detained 10 members of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) who were helping earthquake victims in the southern Turkish...
Turkey arrests 219 people over Gülen-linked donations
A total of 219 people who were among the more than 650 people detained in a massive operation last week targeting alleged members of...
Turkish police detain 97 people in university protest over preacher’s views on child marriage
Turkish police detained 97 people on Tuesday during student-led demonstrations at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University protesting a campus event featuring a controversial Islamic preacher known...
Turkish lawyer who opposed clemency in quake cases put in one-person cell
A lawyer who represented families of victims of earthquakes that struck southeastern Turkey on February 6, 2023, in negligence cases and publicly opposed clemency...
Turkish authorities detain renowned academic for her anthropological work
Renowned anthropologist and academic Nükhet Sirman was detained by Turkish police on Saturday for her academic work, Turkish media reported.
Sirman, who is currently a...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 34 people over alleged ByLock use
Turkish authorities ordered the detention of 34 people on Tuesday, including teachers, nurses and active and dismissed police officers, for allegedly using the ByLock...
University student known for campaigning for release of her ailing father acquitted in Gülen-linked...
University student Süeda Güngör, who had been on trial over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement and had campaigned for the release of...
Turkish journalist, opposition politician sentenced over reporting on AKP-linked construction probe
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced journalist Cihat Polat and opposition politician Mehmet Nazım Gençtürk over their investigation into unlicensed construction on property owned...
The Year in Review: Press Freedom
The Turkish government continued to muzzle the press in 2020 in a variety of ways, including imprisoning journalists, eliminating media outlets, overseeing the purchase...
PACE rapporteur calls on Turkish political parties to avoid negative stances against refugees, migrants...
Birgir Thórarinsson, rapporteur for the crisis facing Afghan refugees from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Committee for Migration, Refugees and...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...