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Turkish court orders release of jailed journalist Sedef Kabaş

An İstanbul court on Friday ordered the release of prominent TV journalist Sedef Kabaş, who has been behind bars since Jan. 22, handing down...
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Main opposition leader vows to release Kavala, Demirtaş if he comes to power

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has promised to release Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş and philanthropist Osman Kavala from jail...
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Espionage charges used as legal argument for continuation of Kavala’s detention: attorneys

Attorneys for businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala have stated, in response to a prosecutor’s final opinion in the Gezi Park case, that espionage charges...
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Prosecutor recommends up to 15 years in prison for teacher abducted from Kenya

A Turkish prosecutor has recommended that a teacher who was forcibly returned from Kenya to Turkey last year due to his affiliation with the...
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Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters calls for release of Kurdish singer in Turkey

Former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has urged for the release of Kurdish singer Nudem Durak, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison...
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Families complain of arbitrary restriction on drinking water in Istanbul’s Silivri Prison

Families of inmates in Istanbul’s Silivri Prison, notorious for its high number of political prisoners, complained yesterday on Twitter that inmates’ drinking water was...
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Turkish writer Ahmet Altan: ‘I prefer prison to exile’

Freed after nearly five years in jail for alleged involvement in a failed coup, Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan, 71, now counts his...
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Prison administration bans jailed Kurdish leader’s novel for ‘obscenity’

A prison administration in northwestern Turkey has refused to give a novel written by a jailed Kurdish politician to an inmate on the grounds...
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Inmate in Turkish prison attempts suicide twice due to mistreatment

Veysel Işık, 30, an inmate in Burhaniye Prison in Turkey’s northwestern Balıkesir province, has attempted suicide twice since a nervous breakdown that was allegedly...
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Turkish journalist gets suspended sentence over cartoon tweet

A columnist for a leading Turkish opposition daily has been handed down a suspended sentence of nine months on charges of “inciting hatred and...
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ECtHR fines Turkey for preventing inmate’s access to newspaper

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey for violating the right to freedom of expression of an inmate who was barred...
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AKP offered Demirtaş immediate release if he runs in elections to weaken opposition: journalist

A journalist has claimed that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has been trying in vain to make a deal with imprisoned Kurdish...
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