Politicians, journalist among 48 detained in İzmir-based counterterrorism operation: report
A total of 48 people, including politicians and a journalist critical of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), were detained as part of...
Turkish police detain prominent architect for allegedly inciting hatred and hostility
Well-known photographer and architect Murat Germen was briefly detained by police on Wednesday evening at Istanbul Airport for “publicly inciting hatred and hostility,” the...
Pro-gov’t media publishing locations of Turkish journalists in exile can lead to serious harm:...
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said stated that recent reports published by Turkey’s pro-government media outlets...
Survey shows Armenians, Jews most targeted groups in Turkish media
A new report on hate speech in the Turkish media has found that Armenians, Jews and Greeks were the most frequently targeted with hate...
European rights court to review cases of Christians barred from Turkey over security codes
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has agreed to examine 20 cases involving foreign Christians who were expelled from Turkey or denied re-entry...
Imprisoned Kurdish journalist says in letter there is no such thing as press freedom...
Aziz Oruç, one of 16 Kurdish journalists who were arrested in June, said in a letter there was no such thing as freedom of...
Exhibit in former Gestapo prison exposes extent of purge in Turkey
The Purge Museum (Tenkil Müzesi in Turkish), an initiative that collects and exhibits items belonging to individuals who survived Turkey’s massive crackdown on the...
Teacher suffering from cancer jailed over alleged Gülen links
Fatımatüzzehra Babacan, 39, a teacher struggling with thyroid cancer for the past 10 years, was imprisoned on Friday after an appeals court upheld her...
Turkish court approves pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Baluken’s sentence of more than 16 years in...
A Turkish regional appeals court on Wednesday approved a prison sentence of 16 years, eight months handed down by a local court to pro-Kurdish...
Ex-spy chief reveals messaging data that served as grounds for mass arrests was obtained...
Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s former intelligence chief and current foreign minister, revealed in an interview on Monday that controversial data from the ByLock messaging app...
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