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Int’l bar association calls on Turkey to stop persecution of legal professionals

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has called on the government of Turkey to halt the persecution of human rights defenders and...

Turkish FM: US account of Trump-Erdoğan call ‘does not fully reflect the truth’

The White House readout of a Wednesday phone conversation between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Donald Trump differs from what the...

Erdoğan’s news agency targets exiled journalists over Afrin messages

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, which was managed by a former advisor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Sunday targeted exiled Zaman media group...

Turkey reacts to France’s UNSC call: You will be siding with terrorists

Turkey on Sunday warned France over its call for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Syria following Turkish operations...

Investigation launched into HDP deputies over Afrin tweets

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday launched an investigation into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ayhan Bilgen and Nadir Yıldırım for...

2 more journalists arrested on terror charges by Turkish court

Veli Büyükşahin and Veli Haydar Güleç, the two journalists from the now-defunct TV 10 television channel, were arrested and put in pretrial detention on Thursday. TV10 is...

Tillerson says US needs Ankara’s ‘close cooperation’ in Syria

In a speech at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on Wednesday US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated that the US takes Turkey’s concerns regarding Syria...

Court rules for release of 33 police officers jailed over ByLock use

An İstanbul high criminal court has ruled for the release of 33 police officers who were arrested for alleged use of a smart phone...

BIA report: 237 aggravated life sentences sought for 520 journalists in Turkey

A recently released quarterly report, the BIA Media Monitoring Report, has revealed that 122 journalists were in Turkish jails as of Jan.1, 2018, while...

Worker stages naked protest in front of Turkey’s nat’l employment agency

A man who has not received his salary from his employer for months on Tuesday staged a naked protest in front of the İzmir...

Upper courts reject appeals to release journalists Altan and Alpay

Two upper courts in Istanbul have rejected a demand for release filed by lawyers representing Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay despite a decision by...

Detention warrants issued for 81 more people over Gülen links

Detention warrants were issued on Monday for 81 people who work for High Education Foundation, as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen...

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