Turkish gov’t jails prominent social activist Osman Kavala after 2 weeks of detention
Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen, social activist and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, was put in pretrial detention after spending two...
Erdoğan confronts polarised Turkey after historic election win
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday confronted the tough task of uniting his deeply divided country after winning a historic runoff election to...
Another journalist arrested for revealing information about intel officer killed in Libya
Murat Ağırel, a journalist from the ultranationalist Yeniçağ daily, has been arrested for revealing information about a Turkish intelligence officer slain in Libya, according...
Turkish court orders access ban on investigative series on visa contractor’s alleged ties to...
A Turkish court has ordered an access ban on an investigative news series examining the business activities of global visa processing giant VFS Global’s...
Turkish teacher jailed over alleged Gülen links recounts losing wife and son while fleeing...
A former Turkish teacher imprisoned over alleged links to the Gülen movement has spoken publicly for the first time about losing his wife and...
İstanbul mayor says indictment seeking to jail him for 2,430 years is built on...
İstanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on Wednesday rejected what he called a “fabricated” indictment seeking a record sentence of up to 2,430 years in...
Family of military cadet lynched by mob on coup night ordered to pay compensation
The family of Murat Tekin, who was killed by a mob on the Bosporus Bridge on the night of a 2016 failed coup in...
Opposition deputy submits parliamentary inquiries regarding state negligence in murder of young woman
A deputy from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has submitted three parliamentary inquiries following the murder of a female university student...
Turkish interior minister targets LGBT+ community in Victory Day speech
Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, in a speech on Tuesday targeted the LGBT+ community and insinuated that they were deviants, the Bold Medya news...
Vague terrorism charge used to target supporters of the Gülen movement: UN special rapporteurs
The vague and imprecise charge of “membership in an armed terrorist organization” appears to be repeatedly misused to target critics of the Turkish government’s...
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