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Turkish-American NASA scientist held in solitary confinement on coup charges

Serkan Gölge, a 36-year-old physicist and research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the US, is being held in solitary...

Turkey bans books from outside in prisons other than Quran

Turkey's Justice Ministry banned newspapers and books from outside except for the Quran for prisoners as of Jan. 9, according to a tweet from...

CHP local branch members attacked, detained over call to protect secularism

Three people from the main opposition Republican People's Party’s (CHP) youth branch in Sakarya’s Serdivan district were battered by an angry mob that chanted...

Publisher of closed pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem newspaper arrested

Kemal Sancılı, the publisher of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem, has been arrested on accusations of membership in a terrorist organization. Özgür Gündem, along with...

[VIDEO] Arrested journalist Şık said in old interview was warned of impending arrest

Journalist Ahmet Şık, who was arrested by a court on Friday on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the...

Access to 4 major TV show provider websites blocked in Turkey

A total of four websites — Dizibox.net, Dizipub.com, Dizimag.com and Dizilab.com — which provide top-rated American TV series, has violated the Copyright Act, according...

Justice minister: 194,000 inmates in 372 prisons across Turkey

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said in a written statement that as of Oct. 12, 2016, there were 194,973 inmates in 372 Turkish prisons. In...

Lawyer sentenced to 15 years in jail time over links to Gülen movement

Lawyer Serdar Ateş on Friday was sentenced 15 years as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of orchestrating...

Turkish police beat human rights lawyer while under detention

Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past four days, was battered by police officers when he resisted efforts to handcuff...

[VIDEO] Amateur football referee detained after match over links to Gülen movement

M.S.G., an amateur football referee, was detained last week after a match as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government...

Int’l cartoonist organizations demand release of Turkish colleague

Leading cartoonist organizations from around the world called on Turkey, in a joint statement, to release Musa Kart, a well-known Turkish cartoonist who was...

Police mistreat leftist lawyers in custody, subject them to ‘musical torture’

  Four lawyers and six law students who were detained as part of an investigation into the leftist İstanbul People’s Law Bureau on Thursday were...

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