Turkish gov’t prosecutes 251 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 1,422 social media accounts and taken legal action against 251 users over the last week (June 11-June 18) on...
Turkish court sentences talent manager to 12 years over alleged coup plot
An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced a celebrity talent manager to 12-and-a-half years in prison for aiding an alleged attempt to overthrow the Turkish...
Sweden to extradite self-proclaimed PKK supporter to Turkey: govt
Sweden on Monday agreed to extradite to Turkey a man convicted of drug trafficking who also supported the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a...
Demirtaş sentenced to prison for insulting Turkish president
A court on Monday sentenced Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş to three years, six months in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s spy colonel Kemal Eskintan, master of conspiracy plots
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Based on a wealth of revelations in the last couple of years during trial proceedings, the view that the false flag coup...
Lawyers challenge appointment of new justice minister at top administrative court
A group of lawyers led by Ömer Faruk Eminağaoğlu, the founding president of the now-closed Union of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), has filed a...
Turkish citizen on trial in Sweden accused of ‘terrorist funding’
A Turkish citizen who appeared in a Swedish court on Tuesday was accused of “attempted terrorist financing” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),...
Turkish authorities keep another sick inmate in prison despite eligibility for parole
Mahmut Söylemez, who has been in prison for five years on trumped-up terrorism charges despite suffering from several chronic illnesses, has not been released...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP Co-chair Buldan: Interior minister threatened me on phone
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan has claimed Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu threatened her, telling her that HDP officials no longer...
Turkey orders detention of 16 for aiding families of people jailed over Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 16 people accused of distributing financial assistance to the families of individuals jailed or dismissed from...
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