Turkey moves to block İmamoğlu’s int’l X account following ban on main handle
Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition’s presidential candidate, posted a defiant message from his international X account on Saturday, hours after Turkish authorities...
Turkey’s Erdoğan cancels press conference amid crisis with US
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday cancelled a planned press conference at İstanbul Atatürk Airport as a visa crisis that erupted following...
EU voices concern over Turkey’s pressure on press freedom in northern Cyprus
The European Commission expressed concern on Wednesday about attempts to restrict press freedom in the Turkish Cypriot community, following disputed reports that Turkey had...
New decree by Turkish gov’t encourages Erdoğan thugs to mobilise and be armed
The posts shared in social media by radical Islamist and nationalist pro-Erdoğan fanatics following a controversial decree issued by Turkish government on Sunday to...
‘At least 721 journalists arrested in Turkey in 17 years’
At least 721 journalists were arrested in Turkey between 2002 and 2019, 93 of whom are still in prison, a report released on Thursday...
15,044 people investigated in one year for ‘inciting hatred and hostility among the public’
Turkish authorities investigated a total of 15,044 people for "inciting hatred and hostility among the public" in 2019, compared to 731 only a decade...
Bar associations file complaint against forensic authority over negligence in student death probe
Bar associations in Turkey’s southeastern provinces of Diyarbakır and Van have filed a criminal complaint against the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), accusing it...
COMMENTARY — The maddening silence of the European Court of Human Rights
Ekrem Dumanlı
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is betraying its own values by turning a deaf ear to the human rights abuses in...
Woman urges authorities to release her mother, detained for alleged links to the Gülen...
The daughter of a woman who on Thursday was detained for alleged links to the Gülen movement said on Twitter her mother was in...
Turkey breaks up crime ring accused of staging fake property sales to secure citizenship...
Turkish authorities have dismantled a crime syndicate accused of arranging fraudulent real estate sales to help hundreds of foreigners obtain citizenship, Turkish Minute reported,...
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