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US hopeful Turkey will free pastor Brunson at Friday hearing

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he was hopeful that Turkey would soon release an American pastor and end a two-year...

Journalist given 7.5 years in prison on terrorism charges

Journalist Seda Taşkın on Wednesday was sentenced to seven years, six months in prison on charges of supporting a terrorist organization and disseminating terrorist...

Brunson’s daughter says pastor’s 2-year ordeal proves all charges are groundless

Jacqueline Furnari, the daughter of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who is standing trial in Turkey on charges of terrorism, has said her father’s two-year...

Kanter in Time magazine: I was with Gülen on coup night, he was as shocked as we were

Professional basketball league (NBA) star Enes Kanter wrote an article for Time magazine saying that he was with Fethullah Gülen at his home in...

Turkish journalist Sağındık moved from jail to house arrest

An Istanbul court on Wednesday released investigative Turkish journalist Uğur Sağındık, who has been pre-trial detention since April 27, 2018, into house arrest, the...

Indictment levels terror charges at journalist who investigated coup attempt

An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor for Ece Sevim Öztürk, an investigative journalist who has been behind bars since June, accuses the journalist...

Turkish citizen arrested in Israel to return to Turkey

Ebru Özkan, a Turkish citizen who was arrested in June near Tel Aviv, is returning to Turkey, the state-run Anadolu agency reported on Sunday,...

[UPDATE] DİHA journalist Oruç released today, detained again

Şerife Oruç, a journalist for the now-closed Dicle News Agency (DİHA), was detained on Monday again after the Batman 2nd High Criminal Court ruled...

CHP presidential candidate İnce visits rival Demirtaş in prison

Main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce on Wednesday visited pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş...

Cumhuriyet journalists given jail sentences on terror charges

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 14 staff members of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet to prison on terrorism charges and acquitted three, one of...

Jailed journalist Ünal: My screams for justice have faded away in a bottomless pit

Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, has urged the judges in his trial...

70,000 students behind bars in Turkey

A total of 70,000 students who have either been convicted of a crime or are in pretrial detention are currently in Turkey’s jails, while...

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