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...
6 detained in Turkish capital over ByLock use
Turkish police have detained six people in the Turkish capital of Ankara on charges of using the ByLock smartphone application, Turkish Minute reported on...
Turkey stops testing prisoners for COVID-19 in notorious Silivri Prison
Testing has been halted for prisoners exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 in Turkey’s Silivri Prison under instructions from the Ministry of Health, the Mezopotamya news...
Turkish authorities block X account of country’s oldest LGBTQ+ advocacy group
Turkish authorities on Monday blocked the X account of LGBTQ+ advocacy group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Foundation (Kaos GL) after...
Imprisoned Kurdish journalist says in letter there is no such thing as press freedom...
Aziz Oruç, one of 16 Kurdish journalists who were arrested in June, said in a letter there was no such thing as freedom of...
Civil servant purged from job succumbs to cancer after belated release from prison
Caner Durukan, 42, a Turkish healthcare worker dismissed from his job in a post-coup purge, succumbed to cancer in a hospital after his release...
Erdoğan condemns alleged satirical cartoon as provocation, vows legal action
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday joined members of his government in condemning a recent cartoon published by the satirical LeMan magazine, calling...
2-month-old baby accompanies mother arrested for alleged links to PKK
A mother of three from northeastern Syria's Rojava province who was arrested for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was accompanied by...
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog bans Can Dündar’s news website again
The Özgürüz news website, run by prominent Turkish journalist Can Dündar, who has been living in self-imposed exile for a while now, was cut...
Turkish human rights group reports 722 mistreatment-related applications in 2024
A recent report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) revealed that in 2024 the organization received 722 applications related to ill-treatment, primarily at the...
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