Turkish President Erdoğan calls on election watchdog to cancel candidacy of HDP’s Demirtaş
Slamming calls for the release of Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
26 detained in İzmir bribery probe amid crackdown on Turkey’s main opposition
Turkish police on Thursday detained 26 municipal officials and employees in the western city of İzmir in a bribery investigation targeting a district municipality...
Police break up protest, detain 30 commemorating slain Gezi activist in Ankara
Turkish police on Thursday dispersed a demonstration by a group commemorating an activist who was killed during the nationwide anti-government Gezi Park protests in...
Man arrested for Gülen links develops severe mental health problems in solitary cell
Akif Sarı, who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement, has developed severe psychological problems after being kept in a solitary cell...
No evidence against Amnesty’s jailed Turkey chair Taner Kılıç, police conclude
A police report seen by human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) shows no evidence substantiating the key charge against its honorary Turkey chair, Taner...
Critics slam celebrity manager’s sentencing on coup charges
Critics, including a European Parliament member and opposition politicians, have denounced an İstanbul court’s 12-year, six-month sentence for celebrity manager Ayşe Barım over the...
Purge victim forced to work as a deliveryman dies in traffic accident
İbrahim Saygı, a former official who was dismissed from Turkey’s Justice Ministry by a government decree as part of purges that followed a July...
UN rights chief criticizes Turkish gov’t for withdrawing from Istanbul Convention, detaining politicians and...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in a press statement released today by her spokesperson Liz Throssell criticized the Turkish government...
Turkish gov’t detains 11 people over alleged ‘terror propaganda’ on social media
The Turkish government detained 11 people in the Turkish capital of Ankara for allegedly promoting propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and...
Turkish cartoonist detained over alleged insult of President Erdoğan
Turkish cartoonist Öznur Kalender has been detained on accusations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a cartoon, the Halk TV news website reported.
Kalender...
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