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OSCE calls on Turkey to halt purge against critical voices

Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, on Wednesday displayed a strong reaction to...

Members of leftist Turkish band Grup Yorum released

The members of leftist band Grup Yorum, who were arrested on Nov. 23, were released at their first court hearing in İstanbul on Wednesday,...

CoE says commission hearing victims’ complaints should adhere to ECHtR case law

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland has called on Turkish authorities to ensure that a commission that will be set up to hear...

Prominent journalist Cemal gets 11-month suspended sentence on insult charges

Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been given a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep...

Court rules media boss Doğan be escorted by police to testify in court

An İstanbul court on Wednesday ruled that honorary chairman of the Doğan Media Group Aydın Doğan, who was indicted last year on charges of...

Journalist Bila becomes new Hürriyet editor-in-chief after crisis on army-gov’t story

Hürriyet's former Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin on Wednesday handed over his post to journalist Fikret Bila after the daily came under severe criticism from government...

Venice Commission watchdog says Turkey ‘on the road to autocracy’

A body of constitutional law experts has warned of a "one-person regime" in Turkey in the wake of proposed constitutional amendments that will establish...

Trustee appointed to Mardin’s Savur Municipality

The Ministry of Interior Affairs on Wednesday appointed a trustee to the Savur Municipality in Mardin province, which was run by a pro-Kurdish Democratic...

18 former police officers arrested over ByLock use

Eighteen out of 25 former police officers who were recently detained as part of an Erzincan-based operation across 11 provinces have been arrested due...

Suspect soldier in coup trial says ordered to prepare for terror attack operation

Abdulkadir Kahraman, a military cadet who was arrested for involvement in a failed coup attempt last July in Turkey, said during his trial in...

CENTCOM shares photos of Kurdish female militia training for Raqqa campaign against ISIL

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has shared photos of female Kurdish militia members, part of People's Protection Units (YPG) forces in Syria fighting the...

Ankara judge deletes Twitter posts over reactions to supporting ‘yes’ camp in referendum

Ankara Judge Yıldırım Bayrak has deleted his personal Twitter account due to the reactions of social media users to his posts openly supporting the...

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