CPJ calls on Turkish gov’t to investigate mob assault on journalist Gültekin
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Turkish government to investigate a mob assault on Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin, a columnist for...
CoE human rights commissioner calls on Turkey to refrain from further implementing new terrorism...
In a letter addressed to Turkey’s interior and justice ministers made public today, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called...
Kurdish-German politician receives death threats from Turkish far-right groups
Sevim Dağdelen, a Kurdish-German politician from the German Left Party, said she has been receiving death threats from Turkish ultranationalist groups, Deutsche Welle (DW)...
Turkey’s under fire pro-Kurdish party risks ban
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party is facing a political and legal onslaught that could see it banned and its MPs jailed as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Leaked emails of Erdoğan’s son-in-law reveal real identity of ‘journalist’ who harassed Turkish human...
Leaked emails sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and former Minister Berat Albayrak reveal that Cahit Oktay, a US-based correspondent for the...
82-year-old philanthropist with Alzheimer’s condemned to die in prison
The daughter of 82-year-old Yusuf Bekmezci, a businessman and philanthropist who was jailed on alleged links to the Gülen movement, said her ailing father...
Turkish court finds Interior Ministry responsible for the death of 12 year-old Kurdish girl
A Turkish court has found the Ministry of the Interior culpable for the death of 12-year-old Ceylan Önkol, who was killed in 2009 after...
Fired for alleged links to PKK, denied reinstatement for ties to Gülen movement,...
The story of Hasan Kaya, a former bureaucrat who was fired from his job over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...
Turkey’s communications agency takes propaganda war to next stage with truck offering ‘UAV flight...
A truck transformed into a digital and technology platform by the Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency offers a flight experience with an unmanned...
Turkey’s state-run news agency harasses Turkish rights activist in the US over Times Square...
Three employees of Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) harassed the president of US-based advocacy organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) on Sunday after...
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