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Jailed Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, who was denied release in September despite medical reports, suffers from dementia and can’t look after herself, according to her...

One hundred two journalists appeared at hearings in their trials in Turkey from July to September, and 10 of them were sentenced to a...

Figen Çapkur, 46, a former teacher who was summarily fired from her job by a government decree, was arrested and sent to a prison...

Turkish-German journalist and writer Deniz Yücel, who was jailed in Turkey for almost a year on bogus terrorism charges, has been elected the new...

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has submitted an indictment requesting between one year, two months and two years, four months’ imprisonment for Republican People’s...

Prominent rights group the Amnesty International’s (AI) Europe Director Nils Muižnieks has said Turkey’s failure to release Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and Kurdish politician...

A court in western Germany has convicted a 60-year-old Turkish citizen of membership in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a banned Kurdish militant group,...

Hanife Çiftçi, who was jailed in June when she was seven weeks pregnant due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, lost her unborn baby...

An Ankara court has accepted an indictment seeking three years’ imprisonment for the mayoral candidate of Turkey’s capital from the opposition alliance only three...

The Diyarbakır Police Department has revealed that an anonymous witness codenamed “Venus” whose testimony led to the detention and imprisonment of scores of people...

Necla Demir, the owner of online newspaper Gazete Karınca, will be tried on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in stories published by the news...

Former İstanbul Governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu was jailed again on Wednesday after an appeals court upheld a prison sentence of three years, one-and-a-half months...