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Rights defender, newspaper staff given prison sentences for terrorist propaganda

The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Tuesday handed down prison sentences to Eren Keskin, a leading Turkish human rights defender, and six former employees of...

Turkey’s top court says banning Kurdish publications in prisons violates freedom of expression

Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday said preventing inmates’ access to certain newspapers and magazines is a “violation of freedom of expression,” the Artı Gerçek news website...

Wife, daughter of purge victim who died of cancer detained

Turkish police on Tuesday detained the wife and daughter of Associate Professor Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who was removed from his job, jailed and died of cancer...

Turkish bar association claims 38 detainees in Halfeti subjected to ill treatment, torture

The Şanlıurfa Bar Association claimed that 38 people who were detained on Monday were subjected to ill treatment and torture, the Evrensel daily reported. One police officer...

TV host slammed for cutting short program featuring opposition mayoral candidate

Journalist and television host Ahmet Hakan Coşkun has attracted widespread criticism for prematurely ending a program on Turkish broadcaster CNN Türk on Monday night during which he...

Lawyer for suspect in Karlov assassination case indicted over Gülen links

Erdem Semih Yıldız, the lawyer for Salih Yılmaz, who is standing trial in connection with the December 2016 murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, has...

[ANALYSIS] What happened to the 15 now-closed Gülen-linked universities and their assets?

The Turkish government issued a decree immediately after a failed coup in 2016 and ordered the closure of 15 universities affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement,...

Erdoğan’s rhetoric against Kurds led AKP to lose İstanbul, deputy chair implies

The deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has implied that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s belligerent rhetoric against Kurds during the campaign for...

Voters who looked like AKP supporters were not given proper ballot papers, claims Yıldırım

Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayoral candidate for İstanbul Binali Yıldırım, who lost in the March 31 local election, claimed that polling station officials did not...

Prosecutors seek to launch proceedings against 25 members of Turkish Parliament

The Turkish Parliament Speaker’s Office has received 44 summaries of proceedings drafted by Turkish prosecutors against 25 deputies including leaders of the two opposition parties, Turkish media...

Leading AKP official sues man who claimed cover-up in daughter’s death

Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Nurettin Canikli has filed a lawsuit against Şaban Vatan, the father of a teenager who died under suspicious circumstances...

Turkey seeks 249 suspects over claims of cheating on foreign ministry entrance exam

Authorities in Turkey have issued detention warrants for 249 people as part of an investigation into alleged cheating during exams to recruit staff for the country’s...

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