Opposition leader becomes first politician facing charges under Turkey’s controversial media law
A criminal complaint filed by the Security General Directorate (EGM) against Turkey’s main opposition leader after he blamed the government for widespread drug use...
Turkey detains 22 more people in operation targeting Gülen followers
Turkish police on Wednesday detained 22 more people out of 23 named in detention warrants as part an ongoing operation into the financial activities...
Pro-Erdoğan daily targets yet another Turkish journalist living in exile
A Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden who’s on a list of political dissidents whose extradition is demanded by Turkey has been targeted...
Former minister warns ECtHR could cancel top Turkish court’s standing as domestic remedy
A former Turkish justice minister has warned that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) might cancel the standing as a domestic remedy of...
73-year-old inmate dies of cancer shortly after his release
Ehettin Kaynar, 73, succumbed to cancer on Sunday in eastern Turkey's Iğdır province, two months after he was belatedly released from prison despite his...
Pro-Kurdish party supporter gets 3 years on terrorism charges for live-streaming Kurdish songs
A supporter of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been sentenced to three years in prison on terrorism charges for live-streaming Kurdish songs...
Kurds trust EU, UN more than Turkish gov’t institutions on human rights issues: survey
Kurds in Turkey trust the European Union and the United Nations more than the Turkish judiciary, presidency and parliament when it comes to human...
Turkey detains 22 people in another operation targeting Gülen followers
Turkish police have detained 22 people out of 25 named in detention warrants as part of an Ankara-based probe into academics and civil servants...
‘I am being held in prison on the basis of a fiction,’ says jailed...
Osman Kavala, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who has been jailed since October 18, 2017, said in a written interview he gave through his...
US Supreme Court rejects Turkey’s attempts to stop lawsuits filed by anti-Erdoğan protestors
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Turkey’s bid to dismiss two lawsuits filed by demonstrators seeking monetary damages after accusing Turkish...
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