Turkish court rules re-arrest of pro-Kurdish HDP’s spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen
A Turkish court has ruled re-arrest of Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Kars deputy and Spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen, who was released on September 8...
Deceased jurist’s daughter says parliamentarians, media ignored calls for help
Buket Erdoğan, the daughter of the recently-deceased jurist Mustafa Erdoğan said the deputies as well as the newspapers she tried to reach out to...
Under threat of arrest in US, Erdoğan leaves his security detail at home
Members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail who were indicted in the US for violently attacking protesters in Washington, D.C., in...
15-month-old held in Turkey’s prison suffered from bad conditions
Hundreds of infants have been kept in pretrial detention in Turkey’s jails with their mothers due to a state of emergency (OHAL) designed to...
Thousands gather in Diyarbakır for pro-Kurdish HDP’s ‘Conscience, Justice and Democracy’ meeting
Thousands of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) supporters have gathered for “Conscience, Justice and Democracy” meeting in Station Square of Diyarbakır province on...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Soylu says he won’t resign over photo with cemetery attacker
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said he would not resign over a photo he posed for with Murat Alp, a participant in a...
Father says French journalist ‘physically and psychologically abused’ under custody in Turkey
French journalist Loup Bureau, who was released after 52 days in detention in Turkey, arrived in Paris on Sunday, said his six days spent...
Turkey’s largest trial of journalists opens on Monday
The first trial hearing is set to start on Monday against 30 leading journalists and newspaper executives in the case where the prosecutor demands...
Legal expert says Turkish gov’t and intelligence blackmail people over ByLock app
Lawyer Murat Akkoç, an experienced lawyer publishing analysis on the ByLock trials and sample defense petitions, has said that Turkish government, intelligence and security...
Academic who tweeted about strangling opposition deputy released
A man who tweeted about strangling main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu was released on Friday after interrogation at a police...
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