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Police officer involved in killing of Gezi protestor sentenced to 7 months in prison for causing ‘injury’

A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of seven-and-a-half months to a police officer on conviction of "willfully causing minor injury" to...

Jailed former police chief not allowed to attend father’s funeral

Imprisoned former police chief Yakup Saygılı, who led corruption operations in 2013 that implicated then-prime minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals declines to uphold 9-year sentence for former mayor

The 16th Criminal Chamber of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has declined to uphold a prison sentence of nine years, four months and 15...

Turkey seeks up to 7.5 years for top doctor over chemical weapons remarks

An indictment drafted by Turkish prosecutors is seeking a prison sentence of up to seven-and-a-half years for the head of a leading doctors union...

12 people face up to 3 years in prison over Boğaziçi protests

Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to three years in prison for 12 people who took part in protests against the government-appointed rector of İstanbul’s...

Social media celebrity faces 7 years in prison for flushing Turkish lira down the toilet in video

Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of more than seven years for a social media celebrity who was briefly detained in late October...

Journalist gets 3 years in prison for disseminating terrorist propaganda on social media

A Turkish court has sentenced a journalist to three years in prison on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda in her social media posts, the...

Turkish court sentences TV preacher to 8,658 years in prison

An İstanbul court in a retrial on Wednesday sentenced a Muslim preacher who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called "kittens" to 8,658...

Turkish prosecutors seek 15-month jail sentence for İstanbul mayor

Turkish prosecutors on Friday sought to jail the mayor of İstanbul for at least 15 months, a sentence that would see him banned from...

Former pro-Kurdish HDP lawmaker gets suspended sentence on insult charges

Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy, has been handed down a five-month suspended sentence for “insulting the state, the government...

Top court upholds jail sentence for Gülen’s nephew abducted from Kenya

Turkey’s top appeals court has upheld a reduced sentence of three years, four months for a teacher who was abducted from Kenya last year...

Turkey frees Kurdish politician with dementia from jail

Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk was released from jail in northwest Turkey late Thursday after a medical report that her dementia did not allow her...

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