‘I trust Swedish laws to protect me,’ says exiled journalist whose extradition Erdoğan is...
Bülent Keneş, a Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden, said he is not afraid or worried after hearing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Taxi driver gets suspended sentence for spying on Turkish dissidents in Germany
A German court has handed down a nine-month suspended sentence to a taxi driver who is accused of spying on Turkish dissidents in Germany...
Jailed journalist not allowed to see daughter for 6 months
Imprisoned journalist Gazel Bulut, who has not been allowed to see her four-year-old daughter for the past six months due to COVID-19 measures, has...
İstanbul district mayor, 25 others arrested in expanding crackdown targeting CHP
Hasan Mutlu, mayor of the Bayrampaşa district of İstanbul from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was arrested late Monday along with 25 others in...
12 people face up to 3 years in prison over Boğaziçi protests
Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to three years in prison for 12 people who took part in protests against the government-appointed rector of İstanbul’s...
Colonel suffering from multiple conditions not released despite health report
Mustafa Barış Avıalan, a former staff colonel sentenced to life imprisonment on coup charges, has not been released by a court despite health reports...
Seriously ill Turkish lawyer ordered to travel despite doctors’ warnings
A Turkish lawyer in intensive care was ordered to travel to Istanbul for a forensic medical review, despite doctors warning that he is too...
Opposition leader asks Turkish officer who threatened Uyghurs with deportation, ‘Are you the Chinese...
“Are you the Chinese police oppressing our Uyghur brothers?” Ali Babacan, leader of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), said in a social...
76-year-old man convicted for speaking Kurdish dies in prison
Ali Boçnak (76), who was detained in 2009 for conducting a religious ceremony in his mother tongue of Kurdish, has passed away in prison,...
Pro-Kurdish party urges Turkish gov’t to free former leaders Demirtaş, Yüksekdağ after CoE ruling
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has called on the government to immediately release prominent Kurdish politicians Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen...
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