Turkey’s main opposition leader faces new probe over remarks ‘targeting’ prosecutor
Turkish prosecutors have launched a new criminal investigation into Özgür Özel, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), over remarks he made...
Journalist gets 6 years in prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a jail sentence of six years, three months to a journalist on conviction of terrorist organization membership due...
Turkey urgently needs to demonstrate concrete progress on rule of law, fundamental freedoms:...
The European Union External Action Service (EEAS) said in a statement issued on Saturday that a Turkish court’s decision to convict four human rights...
Turkish authorities jail 9-months-pregnant woman for attempting to flee prior to retrial over Gülen...
A Turkish woman previously sentenced to over six years for her alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement has been arrested by a court...
Kurdish lawmaker faces up to 15 years in prison on terrorism charges
A lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was stripped of her parliamentary immunity and jailed earlier this month, faces a prison...
Human rights activist and mother of jailed cadet arrested for terrorist propaganda
Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who was sentenced to life in prison after a 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, was...
Turkey arrests Council of Europe youth delegate over speech on jailed mayors, police violence
Enes Hocaoğulları, an LGBTQ+ activist and Turkey’s youth delegate to the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, has been arrested over...
Pro-Erdoğan daily targets yet another journalist in exile, reveals his home address
A pro-government daily has published a secretly taken photo of an investigative Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden and revealed his home address...
Dismissed from public service because he bought baby formula
A man identified only by the initials T.E. who was taken into police custody because he bought 120 containers of baby formula for his...
Turkish parliament approves controversial social media bill
The Turkish parliament on Wednesday approved an amendment to the law on Internet crimes submitted last week by the ruling Justice and Development Party...
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