Turkish gov’t investigates 39,000 social media users, detains over 3,000 of them in 2017
Turkish government has investigated more than 39,000 social media users and detained more than 3,000 social media users and Turkish courts have arrested over...
CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu’s adviser sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison over...
Fatih Gürsul, an adviser to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), was sentenced by an İstanbul court on...
Judges who released Hüseyin Korkmaz in 2015 purged by Turkish gov’t from positions
Two judges who in 2015 released Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former İstanbul police officer who testified at the New York trial of Mehmet Hakan Atilla,...
Bar associations of Turkey’s east and southeast provinces say gov’t decrees ‘unconstitutional’
The latest government decrees issued on Sunday by Turkish government under the autocratic rule of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have continued to receive...
Turkish Journalist Vahit Yazgan behind bars for 505 days over anonymous letter
Vahit Yazgan, bureau chief of shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, has been under arrest over an anonymous letter alleging that...
New decree by Turkish gov’t encourages Erdoğan thugs to mobilise and be armed
The posts shared in social media by radical Islamist and nationalist pro-Erdoğan fanatics following a controversial decree issued by Turkish government on Sunday to...
Turkish gov’t detains wives of 13 jailed police chiefs over alleged links to Gülen...
Turkish government, on Monday, has detained the wives of 13 deputy police chiefs who were dismissed from their duties following the incrimination of then-Prime...
Turkish judge throws jailed journalist Şık out of courtroom for alleged ‘political’ defence
Turkey's prominent investigative journalist and writer Ahmet Şık, who is being tried alongside other journalists from Cumhuriyet daily, has been ejected from the courtroom...
‘Licence to kill’ given by Turkish gov’t to its fanatics with latest decree draws...
The new government decree released in Turkey on Sunday to provide immunity and impunity to the pro-government civilians, who allegedly struggle against controversial coup attempt...
Turkish gov’t detains 617 people in one week over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 617 people have been detained by Turkish government in one week as part of its massive...
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