Journalist Salih Turan arrested on terrorism charges
Turkish journalist Salih Turan was arrested by a court on Wednesday on charges of alleged membership in a terrorist group, the Artı Gerçek news website...
Prominent human rights defender released after 94 days in pretrial detention
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled for the release of Nimet Tanrıkulu, a prominent human rights activist, after she had spent 94 days in...
Critical Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden brutally attacked
Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who has been living in exile in...
New curfews declared in southeastern Turkey
The Diyarbakır Governor's Office announced on Friday that a curfew has been declared in eight villages and their hamlets in the Dicle district of...
32 detained in İstanbul as part of investigation targeting 4 opposition municipalities
Turkish police have detained 32 people, including former employees of four district municipalities in İstanbul, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the main...
Forensics council shouldn’t be only decision-maker in ill inmates’ cases, medical union chair says
Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a prominent human rights activist, doctor of forensic medicine and head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), has said Turkey’s Council...
Court rules for continuation of arrest of veteran journalist Gündem
A high criminal court in İstanbul on Thursday ruled for a continuation of the arrest of journalist Mehmet Gündem, who was jailed on November...
Colleagues arrested in post-coup crackdown victims of false charges, says veteran journalist
Veteran journalist Şahin Alpay, who was imprisoned following a coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, has saidin an interview that many of his colleagues arrested in a post-coup purge were victims of trumped-up...
Turkish lawyers continue to be imprisoned for doing their jobs: American Bar Association
In a statement on the occasion of Lawyers’ Day in Turkey, the American Bar Association said Turkish lawyers continue to be arrested, charged, tried...
German journalist returns to İstanbul after Turkey relents on press credential
The Turkish government has renewed the press credentials of Tagesspiegel reporter Thomas Seibert after initially refusing to do so, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported...
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