INTERPOL denied Turkey’s 2014 Red Notice request for Gülen: former official
A former police chief who served for six years as head of the Turkish Police Department’s INTERPOL branch said in an interview with the...
Writer to serve sentence for showing solidarity with Kurdish daily
A Kurdish writer has been sent to prison to serve a 15-month sentence on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda when acting as the symbolic...
Probe into ex-Grey Wolves leader’s murder ends without charges for alleged masterminds
Turkish prosecutors have dropped an investigation into 22 suspects, including prominent nationalist figures, over the assassination of former Grey Wolves leader Sinan Ateş, sparking...
Writer imprisoned in Turkey not given food or water for 2 days
Celalettin Can, a writer incarcerated in an İstanbul prison, was not given food or water for two days, the Evrensel newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The...
Turkish court arrests opposition mayor over deadly cable car accident
In a development seen as politically motivated by many, a Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of the opposition mayor of a district...
Woman who revealed a strip-search prohibited from visiting husband in Turkish prison for 6...
Ferda Öztürk, who earlier reported she had been strip-searched during a visit to her husband in prison, has been banned from the prison for...
‘Living in a dictatorship’: İstanbul mayor’s detention sparks anger
“We’re living in a dictatorship,” said Kuzey, an İstanbul shopkeeper, after police detained the city’s popular opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on corruption allegations.
The early...
Social media campaign urges release of inmate suffering from paralysis and epilepsy
Social media users on Friday called on Turkish authorities to release Şerife Sulukan, an inmate suffering from paralysis and epilepsy whose health has deteriorated...
Former İstanbul municipality media director alleges rights violations in prison amid crackdown on opposition
Dr. İpek Elif Atayman, the former general manager of the İstanbul Municipality’s media company, has alleged her rights are being violated through abusive prison...
Bar associations call on Erdoğan to stop targeting Istanbul Convention
In a joint statement on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest remarks regarding the Istanbul Convention, eight of Turkey’s bar associations have urged him to...
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