Satirical magazine staff detained in Turkey over alleged Prophet Muhammad cartoon
The Turkish police on Monday detained four staff members and editors at one Turkey’s top satirical magazines for publishing a cartoon that allegedly depicted...
University students using EU exchange programs to seek asylum, says Turkish Ministry of Education
University students who are leaving Turkey under the European Union's Erasmus exchange program are applying for asylum in European countries, according to a recent...
Pro-Kurdish party starts ‘March to Protest the Coup against Democracy’
Members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) started making their way to the capital, Ankara, yesterday from the southeastern province of Hakkari and...
Turkish police detain 25 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 25 people in coordinated raids across eight provinces over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the TR724 news...
105K Turkish high school graduates haven’t enrolled in university amid economic crisis
More than 105,000 high school graduates in Turkey have been unable to enroll in a university this year despite being eligible, mainly due to...
Wife pleads for help for jailed husband after serious health problems emerge
Esra Terzioğlu, the wife of a jailed TV director who has serious health problems, has asked for help from officials in a video posted...
Jailed Turkish journalist indicted for allegedly threatening President Erdoğan
Well-known Turkish journalist Fatih Altaylı, who has been in pretrial detention since June 22, has been indicted on charges of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a...
Journalists accosted by police while covering a fire in Turkey’s Sivas province
Journalist Hüsnü Ümit Avcı, a correspondent for the Doğan News Agency (DHA), had an altercation with a police officer on Friday who tried to...
Turkey made highest number of removal requests to Twitter in 2019, report shows
A report drafted by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD) has shown that Turkey made the highest number of applications to the Twitter social...
Turkish spy agency steps up recruitment of informants among diaspora during holiday season
As millions of Turkish flock to Turkey’s resort towns and cities for the summer holidays, the country’s intelligence agency, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), has...
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