Barcelona’s Turkish player indicted for sexual harassment, possessing unregistered gun
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday indicted Barcelona football star Arda Turan on charges of sexual harassment and possessing an unregistered firearm,...
Prosecutors find no grounds to investigate mistreatment allegations of Kurdish woman
Prosecutors in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province have found no legal grounds to initiate an investigation into claims made by a 64-year-old woman of severe...
Okumuş becomes 2nd victim of abductions targeting members of Gülen movement in a week...
Murat Okumuş, a 40-year-old accountant who was a director at the government-closed Şifa University Hospital in İzmir province, was abducted. It has been second...
Turkish gov’t denies sharing Khashoggi audio recordings with US
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday denied that audio recordings involving the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were shared with US Secretary...
Journalist briefly detained in Ankara due to conviction over Kavala indictment criticism
Journalist Gökhan Özbek was briefly detained in Ankara on Thursday due to a prison sentence he was handed down for criticizing an indictment against...
3 die by suicide over depression caused by Turkey’s post-coup purge
Three people in Turkey died by suicide on the same day, reportedly as a result of depression caused by actions of the Turkish government,...
RTÜK fines Turkish TV stations $41 million over past decade
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), a TV and radio regulatory watchdog in Turkey, announced on Wednesday that in the last decade --...
ECtHR again faults Turkey for pretrial detention of 379 after 2016 failed coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has once again faulted Turkey over the arrest and pretrial detention of 379 people following a failed...
Rights violations against minors in Turkey have increased during the pandemic, children’s rights advocates...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an increase in rights violations against minors in Turkey, children’s rights advocates have said, speaking to the Bianet news...
Turkish gov’t detains 478 people over links to Gülen movement in past week
The Turkish government detained a total of 478 people last week (Oct.22-Oct.29) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of...
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