German prosecutors investigating AKP MP over speech targeting Gülenists, PKK members
The Düsseldorf prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) due to his recent call...
Turkish court acquits police officer who killed Kurdish student in SE Turkey
A Turkish court has acquitted police officer Yakup Şenocak, who shot a Kurdish university student Kemal Kurkut to death during Nevruz celebrations in the...
Jailed former police chief not allowed to attend father’s funeral
Imprisoned former police chief Yakup Saygılı, who led corruption operations in 2013 that implicated then-prime minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...
University suspends academic for exam question on presidential system in Turkey and its impact...
A law professor at a university in the central Turkish province of Eskişehir was suspended for three months for asking a question in an...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: 2022 in Review
Turkey’s efforts at transnational repression against critics abroad did not wind down in 2022. On the contrary, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government devised new...
Rejection of request for return of property violated church foundation’s rights: Turkey’s top court
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of the Hasköy Aya Paraskevi Church Foundation and said the General Directorate of Foundations’ rejection of its...
Erdoğan says Sweden needs to extradite 130 ‘terrorists’ to Turkey for its NATO bid
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded the extradition of some 130 people from Sweden to Turkey whom he called “terrorists” in order for...
2 children accompany mother serving prison sentence on conviction of links to Gülen movement
Two children, aged two and four years, are accompanying their mother, Serpil Turan, in prison following her arrest on January 5 to serve a...
Turkish student’s internship application rejected by Swedish professor over Sweden’s NATO bid
A professor at Stockholm University has turned down a Turkish student who applied for an internship because Turkey refuses to approve Sweden's application to...
Top court annuls critical articles of laws on state of emergency
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has canceled several articles of two laws on a state of emergency (OHAL) imposed following a failed coup in 2016 in...
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