The Arrested Lawyers Initiative, an advocacy group defending lawyers’ rights, said in a recent statement that 450 lawyers in Turkey have been sentenced to 2,786 years...
Turkish courts handed down sentences totaling 103 years to 23 journalists in 2020, according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2020,” released by the...
Eight journalists appeared in an İstanbul criminal court on Wednesday in the first hearing of their retrial, made possible when the country’s top court...
A Turkish prosecutor has indicted famous veteran actors Metin Akpınar, 77, and Müjdat Gezen, 75, for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seeking prison sentences...
Five journalists from
the Cumhuriyet daily who have been in prison since April were released on
Thursday evening after Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals (Yargıtay) overturned
the...
The
Turkish Ministry of Interior has announced in a statement that 41 former mayors
who were removed from office and replaced by government-appointed trustees
between July 2016...
A high criminal court
in İstanbul on Tuesday handed down six year, three month prison sentences to 12
individuals including the wives and siblings of former...
