Turkish Interior Ministry: 106,740 guns reported missing in 2017
A total of 106,740 guns were reported to be missing or stolen in 2017, according to a report by the Turkish Interior Ministry, raising...
Turkish government bans access to critical Ahval news website
The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com as the Turkish government’s crackdown on the...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist militia HÖH changes name after Interior Ministry warning
The People’s Special Forces (HÖH), a pro-Erdoğan jihadist militia that emerged allegedly to counter a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and...
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...
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Throughout the year human rights organizations...
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