4 members of Turkish family killed in traffic accident after visiting jailed relative in...
Four members of the Aydın family were killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday evening while driving from Turkey's Erzurum province to their hometown...
Amnesty’s Simanowitz: We must speak up for free expression in Turkey
Journalists and human rights activists are being unlawfully held in Turkish prisons, says Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International's media manager for Europe, Turkey and the...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 119 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Eskişehir and Erzincan chief public prosecutor’s offices on Wednesday issued detention warrants for over 95 people as part of an investigation into the...
Turkish journalist Yazgan sentenced to 9 years in prison based on anonymous letter
Vahit Yazgan, the former bureau chief of the shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, was sentenced to eight years, nine months...
Turkish court sentences jailed journalist Altan to 6 years for ‘supporting’ PKK and ‘insulting’...
An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper Ahmet Altan, who was sentenced by another court to...
Turkish state-run TRT bans broadcasting of 208 songs
The state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has banned the broadcasting of a total of 208 songs, 142 Turkish and 66 Kurdish, on...
Turkish court refuses to release Zaman journalist Ünal after 18 months in jail
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and a former columnist for...
Jailed Turkish journalist/novelist Ahmet Altan: I am living what I wrote in a novel…
Prominent Turkish novelist and newspaper editor Ahmet Altan, who was sentenced by a Turkish court to life in prison without the possibility of parole on...
Turkish court sentences pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Irmak to 10 years in prison
A Turkish court in Gaziantep province has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Selma Irmak to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges.
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Academic arrested by Turkish gov’t over alleged Gülen links denied prescribed medication for 11...
İbrahim Yakut, an associate professor who was arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 due to his...
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