Erdoğan says Gülen movement supporters have no property rights
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said at a press conference on Wednesday prior to an official trip to Azerbaijan that supporters of the Gülen...
Number of arrests over May Day demonstrations rises to 49
With 11 more arrests ordered by an İstanbul court on Monday, the number of people arrested for allegedly resisting law enforcement on May Day...
Editor-in-chief of pro-Erdoğan Yeni Akit daily targets widow of slain journalist Hrant Dink
Ali İhsan Karahasanoğlu, editor-in-chief of the pro-government radical Islamist Yeni Akit newspaper, targeted Rakel Dink, the widow of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, in...
Turkey ranked among most repressive in LGBT rights index
Turkey received one of the worst scores in Europe in the 2024 edition of the Rainbow Index released by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...
Turkish journalist attacked by mob after criticizing far-right party founder
Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin, a columnist for the Diken news website and an outspoken critic of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), was...
Indictments seek lengthy prison sentences for 42 May Day demonstrators in pretrial detention
Two indictments drafted separately by Turkish prosecutors seek prison sentences of up to 13-and-a-half years for each of 42 people arrested for defying a...
Turkish Twitter users commemorate Ankara train station bombing victims and demand justice
Turkish Twitter users started a hashtag campaign yesterday commemorating the victims of bombings at the Ankara train station 2,000 days after they occurred and...
Mayor from pro-Kurdish DEM Party faces investigation for ‘insulting’ the president
Turkish authorities have launched an investigation into Mümin Erol, co-mayor of the Tatvan district from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party),...
Turkey’s Erdoğan appeals veteran actors’ acquittal of insult charges
The lawyer for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed an appeal against a recent ruling by an İstanbul court to acquit two actors...
Ailing inmate dies shortly after hospitalization
Yıldırım Han, an ailing inmate, died Wednesday night following his transfer to a hospital in Ankara for medical treatment, the Bianet news website reported...
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