EU’s Turkey rapporteur visits jailed İstanbul mayor, says Turkey’s EU future ‘begins in Silivri’
Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey, visited jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Friday at Marmara Prison in Silivri, expressing strong...
Turkish court releases 14 students arrested during protests over İmamoğlu detention
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of 14 students pending trial who were jailed for over two months following demonstrations protesting the...
İstanbul Bar executive freed pending trial on terrorism charges
Fırat Epözdemir, a board member of the İstanbul Bar Association who is standing trial on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and disseminating...
Opposition slams Turkey’s prison reform bill for excluding political prisoners
A new prison reform bill introduced by Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has come under fire from opposition lawmakers, who say the...
Turkey arrests 13 in dessert chain probe over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of 13 people previously detained in connection with a probe into Antiochia Künefe, a popular dessert...
Turkey blocks access to 454 Grup Yorum videos on YouTube
Turkish authorities have blocked access to 454 videos of the folk protest band Grup Yorum on YouTube, citing national security and public order concerns,...
Members of Turkey’s main opposition party face up to 15 years in prison, political...
A Turkish court has accepted an indictment seeking prison terms up to 15 years and political bans for 26 members of the main opposition...
18 detained in İstanbul over silent ‘standing man’ protest on Gezi anniversary
Turkish police detained 18 people on Wednesday evening in İstanbul’s central Taksim Square during a silent “standing man” protest marking the anniversary of the...
Turkey sees 80 percent rise in adolescent suicide rates: UNICEF
Adolescent suicide rates in Turkey surged by 80 percent between 2018 and 2022, one of the steepest increases globally, according to a recent UNICEF...
Top court rules Turkey violated rights of Gülen-linked teacher abducted from Kazakhstan
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that authorities violated their obligation to investigate credible allegations of torture made by Zabit Kişi, a former teacher convicted...
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