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A Turkish court agreed on Wednesday to study a request from the defense to remove a judge from the trial of three activists facing...

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro on Wednesday urged Turkish authorities to acquit journalists...

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the interim closure of Özgür Gündem, a now-defunct newspaper that had focused on Kurdish issues, violated the constitutional...

Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country's Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...

Journalist Hüseyin Aykol was put in prison on Thursday after a regional appeals court upheld a three-year, nine-month prison sentence for disseminating terrorist propaganda.Aykol was one...

A Turkish prosecutor on Monday indicted Kars Mayor Ayhan Bilgen, a Kurdish politician from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on terrorism charges due to his role...

The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Tuesday handed down prison sentences to Eren Keskin, a leading Turkish human rights defender, and six former employees of...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ordered Turkey to compensate the owner of a Kurdish newspaper that was shut down in...

Social media company Twitter has suspended the account of Özgür Gündem, a pro-Kurdish daily that was closed down by a Turkish court in 2016...

Feminist writer and journalist Ayşe Düzkan on Tuesday surrendered to authorities to serve an 18-month jail sentence handed down for acting as the symbolic...

Leading Turkish feminist writer Ayşe Düzkan announced in a column on Monday that she would surrender to authorities to serve an 18-month prison sentence...

A regional appeals court in İstanbul has upheld jail sentences handed down to five journalists by a local court for alleged links to the...