Turkey detains 56 in expanding crackdown on Gülen movement
Turkish authorities have detained 56 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated operations across multiple provinces in...
Turkish authorities deem paralyzed inmate with brain tumor fit for prison
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has again ruled that 73-year-old Mehmet Emin Çam can remain in prison, rejecting calls for his release on...
Far-right leader sentenced to more than 2 years, released after 148 days in pretrial...
Ümit Özdağ, the head of Turkey’s ultranationalist Victory Party, was released due to time served from İstanbul’s Silivri Prison on Monday after being sentenced...
Turkey arrests 4 journalists over alleged links to ‘illegal organization’
A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of four journalists who were detained last week in İstanbul as part of an investigation launched by...
Turkey arrests union officials for protesting jailing of İstanbul mayor
Two local leaders of a major labor union were arrested Monday in Turkey’s western city of İzmir after participating in demonstrations protesting the jailing...
Rights groups tell EU bodies Turkey’s refusal to implement ECtHR rulings has reached crisis...
A group of international rights organizations has warned that Turkey’s refusal to implement judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has reached...
Inmates in Gaziantep prison struggle with restricted water supply
Families of inmates at Gaziantep L-Type Prison in southeastern Turkey said the supply of water has been restricted over the past three days, worsening...
Court adjourns jailed İstanbul mayor’s trial over criticism of controversial prosecutor until July
A Turkish court has adjourned the trial of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu until July in a case concerning his criticism of a prosecutor for...
Man imprisoned in Turkey’s post-coup purge says crackdown drove daughter to kill her mother,...
A Turkish man whose daughter killed his wife and then herself after his post-coup imprisonment spoke publicly Sunday about how Turkey’s crackdown on the...
Turkish press groups decry detentions of journalists
Turkish press organizations have condemned the recent detentions of multiple journalists and a media translator as part of an investigation led by prosecutors in...
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