Mothers urge Turkish gov’t to tackle root causes of youth crime as juvenile sentences...
Mothers raising teenagers in Istanbul’s poorer neighborhoods have urged the Turkish government to tackle the structural causes of youth crime as a new judicial...
Turkey refers Istanbul district mayor, 47 others to court amid crackdown on main opposition
Hasan Mutlu, the mayor of Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa district, and 47 others were referred to court on Monday as part of a crackdown targeting the...
Turkish rock band members jailed over alleged insults to religion
Five members of a Turkish rock band were arrested on charges of insulting religious values and inciting hatred, Turkish Minute reported.
The musicians, from the...
Turkish screenwriter detained over past remarks about fictional character
Merve Göntem, a screenwriter for the popular Turkish TV series “Kızılcık Şerbeti” (Cranberry Sorbet), was detained in İstanbul on Monday as prosecutors launched an...
Turkey detains 14 foreign ministry staff, ex-employees over Gülen links
Turkish authorities have detained eight Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff members and six former employees on accusations of links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Turkish opposition party leader put under house arrest for allegedly insulting Erdoğan
A Turkish court on Monday placed Nurullah Efe Ankut, leader of the People’s Liberation Party (HKP), under house arrest for allegedly insulting President Recep...
Lawyers groups condemn ECtHR inaction on cases of Turkish colleagues
A coalition of lawyers associations from Europe and beyond accused the European Court of Human Rights of inaction on cases brought by Turkish defense...
Relatives urge release of late-stage Turkish cancer patient jailed over Gülen links
The relatives and friends of a Turkish woman with stage-three breast cancer are urging authorities to release her from prison, where she is serving...
20 young women strip-searched at Şakran prison, lawmaker says
Twenty young women were subjected to strip-searches at Şakran Women’s Prison in western Turkey this summer, a pro-Kurdish lawmaker has alleged, the Bold news...
Former teacher imprisoned on Gülen links dies of cancer shortly after release
Asaleddin Çelik, a 52-year-old former English teacher imprisoned over alleged ties to the Gülen movement, died of cancer on Sunday, shortly after his release...
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