Turkey issues arrest warrant for Die Welt journalist Yücel
A Turkish court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Die Welt columnist Deniz Yücel, who is being tried in absentia on charges of...
Turkish court upholds pregnant woman’s sentence and denies request for release
An appeals court has upheld the prison sentence handed down to a pregnant woman on conviction of links to the Gülen movement and has...
Yet another mysterious abduction by a black van in Turkey’s capital
Hasan Kala, an academic who was fired from his job at Çankırı Karatekin University by a government decree under a state of emergency declared...
Lawyer indicted for ‘targeting public officials’ in social media post
Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment against lawyer Burak Saldıroğlu over a social media post in which he criticized İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akın...
Turkish judges defy Constitutional Court, reject retrial of former city planner
An İstanbul court on Thursday rejected a ruling by Turkey’s Constitutional Court ordering a retrial of former city planner Tayfun Kahraman, attracting criticism from...
Turkish TV anchor to testify in Erdoğan insult investigation
HALK TV anchor and journalist Şule Aydın has been ordered to give testimony to a prosecutor in Istanbul after an investigation was launched to...
Turkey’s top court finds no rights violation in cases of 6 journalists: report
The Turkish Constitutional Court found no violation of rights in two separate cases involving six journalists over their reports on military involvement in Libya...
Greek military arrests 2 Turkish soldiers for crossing border
A Greek army spokesman has said two Turkish military members have been arrested for allegedly crossing into Greece illegally. The spokesman told The Associated...
33 women killed by men, 24 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Thirty-three women were murdered by men in Turkey in August, and 24 more died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
In a first, Kurdish mayors removed from office are reinstated in Turkey
The co-mayors of a district in a predominantly Kurdish province in eastern Turkey who had been removed from office earlier this year have been...
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