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Turk whose story inspired blockbuster movie falls ill after 31 months in prison

A Turkish woman whose story inspired a blockbuster movie in 2015 has developed serious health problems during her 31 months in prison and solitary confinement, the...

Purge Museum visits Brussels, telling of tragedies in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown

Purge Museum, an initiative that collects and exhibits items belonging to individuals who survived Turkey’s massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, opened for a four-day run...

HRW: Turkey has arbitrarily jailed hundreds of lawyers since 2016 coup

Turkey has been arbitrarily jailing hundreds of lawyers and putting them on trial in the aftermath of the country’s failed military coup in July 2016, Human...

Erdoğan’s targeting of journalist goes unnoticed: ‘Public got used to it’ former editor says

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again targeted a journalist in a public appearance, but it almost went unnoticed, and according to the journalist...

[ANALYSIS] What really happened in Turkey’s local elections – in numbers

Twenty-five years ago two young Islamist party candidates defied all odds and became the mayors-elect of Turkey’s two largest cities, İstanbul and Ankara. The success of...

Kurdish artist, journalist granted Index on Censorship’s arts award

The London-based Index on Censorship, a campaigning publishing organization for freedom of expression, has given this year’s Freedom of Expression Arts Award to Kurdish painter and journalist...

[OPINION] Ardern and Erdoğan: The difference between greatness and partisanship

Ekrem Dumanlı Politics is like a ladder that consists of four steps. On every step, a politician should pause and mature. If a politician who climbed all the...

Turkey’s ruling AKP loses İstanbul, Ankara to opposition: unofficial results

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Sunday lost municipal races in İstanbul and Ankara, two of the country’s major cities, according to unofficial results. Although...

95 pct of media outlet mobile notifications promoted Erdoğan government: report

A study of smartphone notifications from Turkey’s most popular mobile news applications has revealed that 95.5 percent of these notifications were in favor of the ruling...

Pro-gov’t media accuse comedy show of attempting perception management

Two pro-government media outlets in Turkey, the Sabah newspaper and A Haber TV station, have accused the producers of a famous comedy show of attempting perception...

Jailed journalist Ünal says indictment has lost validity as prosecutor suspended

Mustafa Ünal (51), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily, has said since the prosecutor who indicted...

Turkish president wanted to meet me in private, claims high-ranking ISIS militant

Abu Mansour al Maghrebi, a high-ranking militant of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip...

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