YouTube journalist in Turkey arrested for street interview
Hasan Köksoy, a YouTube journalist, was arrested by a Turkish court on Wednesday due to an interview he broadcast three days ago, Turkish media...
Turkish airstrike on Kurds in Syria kills 20: monitor
A Turkish airstrike on Monday killed 20 Kurdish security personnel and wounded dozens at a training center for police in Kurdish-held northeast Syria, Turkish...
Turkish watchdog fines Netflix and TV stations for gov’t criticism, ‘immoral’ content
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has imposed fines on digital platforms Netflix and local streaming application Exxen in addition...
Former HDP deputy Aysel Tuğluk sentenced to 20 months for spreading ‘terrorist propaganda’
A court in the Turkish province of Van on Friday sentenced Aysel Tuğluk, the former deputy co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),...
Court adjourns jailed İstanbul mayor’s trial over criticism of controversial prosecutor until July
A Turkish court has adjourned the trial of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu until July in a case concerning his criticism of a prosecutor for...
Turkish courts arrest 5 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish courts have ordered the arrest of five people detained in two separate operations in Edirne province over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
Turkey’s far-right leader calls HDP employee killed in attack a ‘terrorist’
Leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party Devlet Bahçeli has said a young woman who was killed in an attack on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Prison administration continues limiting water supplied to former police chief jailed for conducting 2013...
A prison administration in Tekirdağ province continues to limit water supplied to former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rules monitoring of detainee’s lawyer meeting a rights violation
Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that monitoring a detainee's meeting with their lawyer constitutes a violation of rights, the Diken news website reported.
Celaleddin...
Amnesty issues urgent action appeal for release of human rights defender from pretrial detention
Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of prominent human rights activist Nimet Tanrıkulu from a prison in Ankara where she has been held in...
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