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Court upholds suspended sentence for deputy from pro-Kurdish HDP

The 4th Chamber of the Gaziantep Regional Court of Justice on Thursday upheld a two year, six month suspended sentence for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...

RSF: Turkish journalism in the throes of death, European court last hope

Assessing the state of the media in Turkey in a report for the anniversary of a failed coup attempt in the country on July...

Eight PKK members ‘neutralized’ in Hakkari province

Eight members of the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who were allegedly planning an attack were “neutralized” during military operations in Hakkari province,...

HDP files criminal complaint against TRT for causing public harm

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has filed a criminal complaint against the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) for causing public harm,...

‘Everybody will need justice one day,’ says detained Amnesty activist

Amnesty International (AI) Turkey Director İdil Eser, who was detained on July 5 in İstanbul with seven other human rights defenders, has said in...

Suspect wearing ‘hero’ T-shirt in coup trial thrown out of courtroom

One of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of a failed coup in Turkey...

Report reveals pilot who flew Erdoğan on coup night fired over Gülen links

Barış Yurtseven, the pilot of the plane that brought Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Dalaman to İstanbul on the night of a failed...

Ministry says 50,510 arrested, 169,013 faced legal proceedings since July 15

Turkey's Justice Ministry has announced that 50,510 people have been arrested and 169,013 have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since...

MÜSİAD’s coup attempt ads not allowed in US for being ‘too political’

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has refused to allow ads prepared by the US branch of the Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD)...

50 detained in Hatay province over ByLock use

Turkish police teams on Thursday detained 50 individuals in Hatay province on allegations of use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. Fifty people,...

Hunger striker says prison guards check at night to see if she’s dead or alive

Academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on a hunger strike for 127 days to protest her dismissal under state of emergency decree-laws, has said...

[VIDEO] Director of coup movie detained after trailer showed Erdoğan threatened with gun

Ali Avcı, the director of a soon-to-be-released movie about a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, has been detained over links...

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