Turkey arrests 6 Kurdish journalists on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of six Kurdish journalists who were detained in a police operation across several provinces last week, Turkish Minute...
Opposition MP Gergerlioğlu calls for urgent release of ailing philanthropist
Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has called for the immediate release from prison of 82-year-old businessman and...
Turkish prosecutor seeks to proceed against pro-Kurdish HDP co-chair, deputies for alleged terrorist propaganda
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday requested permission to proceed in a criminal case against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan...
Mayor from pro-Kurdish party sentenced to prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has sentenced Siirt mayor Sofya Alağaş to more than six years in prison on terrorism charges for alleged membership in the...
ECtHR rules Turkey violated MPs’ rights by stripping them of immunity in 2016
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the freedom of expression of 40 former lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Turkish prosecutor shows tweets and retweets as evidence for accusing jailed journalists of being...
The case over the alleged media structure of the Gülen movement regarding 29 journalists on trial has eventually come to the decision stage. Among...
Opposition MP under investigation for insulting Erdoğan in parliament
İstanbul prosecutors on Tuesday launched an investigation into Cemal Enginyurt, a lawmaker who recently joined the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), over remarks...
18 women appear in court for participating in demonstration against withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Eighteen women had their first court hearing today in Turkey's Izmir province for participating in an August 2020 demonstration against government plans to withdraw...
COMMENTARY – ISIL and al-Qaeda booksellers are thriving in Erdoğan’s Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
An al-Qaeda-linked bookstore owner in Istanbul who has been selling jihadist books to Turks continues to operate without many obstacles despite a...
X blocked access to 126 accounts in Turkey: rights watchdog
Social media platform X blocked access to 126 accounts following the February 5 ruling of an Ankara judge that cited the need for “protection...
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