Presidential candidate Demirtaş’s lawyers to apply to Turkish top court for release
Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), will apply for his release to Turkey’s Constitutional Court...
Kenya releases Turkish refugee arrested at Turkey’s request
A Turkish refugee in Kenya who was arrested due to a request from Ankara and later kept in custody by court order was released...
CPJ calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting journalists covering Kurdish issues, release jailed members...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to immediately release all imprisoned members of the press and stop prosecuting journalists who cover Kurdish issues.
The Diyarbakır...
More than 100 students detained at Boğaziçi University amid protests against crackdown on LGBT...
The arrest of two Boğaziçi University students over a poster that depicted LGBT rainbow symbols alongside an image of the Kaaba in Mecca has...
Trump: American pastor standing trial in Turkey ‘a totally innocent man’
An American pastor standing trial in Turkey on allegations of aiding terrorist groups is “a totally innocent man,” US President Donald Trump said on...
Autopsy confirms violent head trauma in death of Turkish environmental journalist
An autopsy has found that Turkish journalist and environmental activist Hakan Tosun died from severe head trauma caused by violence, sustaining multiple fractures and...
Authorities neglect the disabled in Turkey’s earthquake zone, says Amnesty report
A report released on Thursday by Amnesty International has revealed that people with disabilities in Turkey’s earthquake zone are being neglected by the authorities and humanitarian...
Turkish university cancels World Greek Language Day events due to xenophobic pushback
The faculty of languages, history and geography of Turkey’s Ankara University on Tuesday announced that it had canceled plans to mark World Greek Language...
Turkish court sentences singer to 12 months in prison for allegedly insulting Erdoğan in...
Composer Erdal Güney was sentenced by a Turkish court to nearly 12 months in prison for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a...
İmamoğlu tells court diploma annulment aimed at blocking his presidential bid
Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has told a court that prosecutors pressured İstanbul University into annulling his university diploma last year, decades after it...
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