English PEN urges Turkey to drop charges against publisher Ragıp Zarakolu
English PEN, the founding center of a global literary network, has urged Turkish authorities to drop all charges against publisher and human rights activist...
16 detained in İstanbul for protesting arms fair featuring contractors supplying weapons to Israel
At least 16 demonstrators were detained in İstanbul on Tuesday on accusations of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following a protest against the...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Deputy Meral Danış Beştaş arrested
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş, who was detained and then released after she gave her testimony on Saturday, was arrested...
Altan brothers’ spirit can’t be imprisoned, says int’l law expert
International law expert Philippe Sands has penned an article for the Financial Times detailing his prison visit to the Altan brothers, two high-profile Turkish...
Concern mounts about possible Turkish law on media funding
Press freedom groups expressed concern Friday about comments by Turkish officials concerning possible legislation to regulate foreign funding for media and the dissemination of...
1,169 neighborhoods now closed off to migrant settlement, says Turkish Interior Ministry
The Turkish Ministry of Interior in a written statement said as of July 1, the number of neighborhoods closed off to migrants would be...
Turkish journalists union criticizes police officers who threatened journalist
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) at a Wednesday press conference in Diyarbakır protested threats made by the police against journalist Cengiz Anıl Bölükbaşı...
Turkey again blocks YouTube channel of dismissed public workers despite top court ruling
Turkish authorities have blocked KHK TV's YouTube channel and X account for the second time, just three months after the Constitutional Court ordered the...
DEM Party lawmaker decries human toll of recent crackdown on Gülen movement
The human cost of a recent government crackdown on the Gülen movement was criticized during a parliamentary speech by Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a deputy from the...
Former Turkish official detained ahead of trial after exposing corruption
A former Turkish official who exposed corruption at a state-run company operating under Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism was detained on Wednesday ahead...
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