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HDP deputy Öztürk detained at İstanbul airport

Berdan Öztürk, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was detained at İstanbul's Atatürk Airport in the early hours of Friday upon...

Detention warrants issued for Sözcü daily owner, 3 employees over Gülen links

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has issued detention warrants for the owner of leading opposition newspaper Sözcü as well as three of its...

Detention warrants issued for 25 including lawyers over ByLock use

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 25 people, 22 of whom are lawyers and three of whom are staff at the Union of...

CoE’s Muižnieks expresses dismay at conviction of activist Çelikkan in Turkey

Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe's (CoE) commissioner for human rights, has voiced disappointment over an 18-month jail sentence handed down to journalist and...

Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence

A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including one on Jesus Christ have been confiscated...

Indictment against Turkish comedian Demirci accepted by Ankara court

An Ankara court on Wednesday accepted an indictment against Turkish comedian Atalay Demirci, who was arrested in August 2016 over alleged links to the...

40 consecutive life sentences sought for Reina attacker

An indictment drafted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office seeks 40 aggravated life sentences and an additional jail sentence of up to 2,397...

HDP deputy Ayhan detained at airport in Şanlıurfa  

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy İbrahim Ayhan was detained at the GAP Airport in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on Monday morning. Ayhan...

3 consecutive life sentences sought for prominent journalists on coup charges

An indictment drafted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office seeks three consecutive life sentences for 16 people, including prominent Turkish journalists, on coup...

Erdoğan says state of emergency to be extended when expires

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a state of emergency that went into effect in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on...

Erdoğan admits to being behind arrests of thousands in post-coup purge

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and himself are behind the arrests of thousands of people...

ECtHR to take up Cumhuriyet journalists’ cases on priority basis

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to examine on a priority basis applications filed by jailed journalists and executives from the...

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