Turkey orders detention of 295 military personnel
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday ordered the detention of 295 active duty military members in 59 provinces over alleged terrorist links,...
MİT trucks case against ultranationalist paper dropped due to statute of limitations
An İstanbul court on Thursday dropped a case against the executives of the ultranationalist Aydınlık newspaper over stories they ran in January 2014 on...
Hate speech in Turkey against Christians on the rise
Christians in Turkey are worried about the increasing hate speech against their communities in the country, the Diken news website reported on Thursday, citing...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: Police file report despite denial of knowledge of abducted men
A Turkish journalist living in exile has discovered that the Ankara Police Department filed a report on the abduction of two men earlier this...
UPDATED: Journalist who interviewed harassed woman briefly detained in Ankara
The Ankara Police on Thursday briefly detained Artı Gerçek reporter Derya Okatan, who interviewed a woman allegedly harassed by a policeman during a peaceful...
2,950 online news articles censored by Turkey in 2018
Turkey censored 2,950 online news articles in 2018 according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2018,” released by the Bianet news website on Tuesday.
Turkish...
Document reveals detention of 2,745 judicial members ordered a day after coup attempt
A document published by a Turkish journalist living in exile on Wednesday revealed that a public prosecutor in Ankara had sent a list of...
Senior economy editor held in prison for a year with no evidence presented against...
Harun Reşit Çümen (44), a senior economy editor who specializes in the stock market, has been behind bars since March 7, 2018. The prosecutor...
Minister on harassed student: I won’t allow pressure on police over a woman with...
Turkish Minister of Interior Affairs Süleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that he would not let the police be pressured over a university student whose...
Prosecutor seeks aggravated life for Kavala, 15 others over Gezi protests
An indictment that has just been submitted to an İstanbul high criminal court demands aggravated life –- imprisonment without the chance of parole --...
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