COMMENTARY — Turkish charity İHH works with Turkish intelligence MİT to empower jihadists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A new cache of confidential documents from a classified investigation in Turkey shows that controversial charity group the Foundation for Human Rights...
Turkish gov’t detains actor Ömer Pekin over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish theater player Ömer Pekin, who has been mostly known with his role in Turkish radio comedy "Perişan FM (Miserable FM)" and state-run TRT's...
Turkish journalist Karaca sentenced to 31 years for slandering al-Qaeda-affiliated group
Turkish journalist Hidayet Karaca, former General Director of now-closed Samanyolu Broadcasting Group, has been sentenced by Turkish government to 31 years in prison on charges...
JWF: The habitus of silencing journalists in Turkey have no limits
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Faruk Akkan, head of Cihan news agency, jailed for 15 months in Turkey without...
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Turkish municipal worker commits suicide following investigation over Gülen links
İrfan Bayar, a municipal worker in Kastamonu province and a former soldier who was wounded in a clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
Turkish TV network executive Muhammed Büyükçıngıl jailed for subscribing to critical daily.
A Turkish journalist and media executive has been behind bars for 301 days in Turkey over his subscription to a critical newspaper that was...
İHD reports over 15,000 rights violations in Turkey’s Kurdish populated provinces in first 9...
Turkey's Human Rights Association's (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch has reported 15,647 human rights violations in the country's Kurdish populated east and southeastern provinces during the...
Turkish uplink technician Cuma Kaya faces life time jail for providing service to critical...
A Turkish media worker, who has been jailed by Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for almost 16 months,...
Visually impaired Turkish journalist’s letter shows he can barely survive in prison
A letter sent by visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was sent to prison last July due to his alleged links to the...
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