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Turkey lashes out at Kurdish group in Sweden over controversial Erdoğan tweet

Turkey on Thursday condemned a video posted by a Kurdish group in Sweden calling President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator" and showing him swinging...

People investigated in Turkey not for posting tweets but for their content: minister

In remarks that came as confusing and untrue to many, Turkey’s justice minister has said nobody is investigated in Turkey for posting tweets but...

Opposition MP faces investigation due to tweet on Armenian Remembrance Day

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into an opposition lawmaker on allegations of insulting the Turkish state in a tweet he posted on April...

Boğaziçi University academic says he was fired over a tweet

Can Candan, a former faculty member at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University and a documentary filmmaker, has said he was informed that his dismissal from the...

Rights activist writer gets suspended sentence over Kobani tweet

A suspended prison sentence of 15 months has been handed down to a writer, lawyer and human rights activist in Turkey due to a...

Son of jailed former MP calls on top court to prioritize father’s petition

The son of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a renowned human rights activist and former member of the Turkish Parliament who was expelled from the legislature...

Turkish journalist briefly detained over cartoon tweet

A columnist for a top Turkish opposition daily was briefly detained on Wednesday over a tweet of a cartoon depicting a janitor appearing to...

Prominent MP Gergerlioğlu expelled from Turkish Parliament over a 2016 tweet

In a move that has created shockwaves in Turkey and the international community, the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday expelled a prominent lawmaker and human...

Lawyer, detained for insulting AKP politician, arrested on Erdoğan insult charges

A lawyer who was detained earlier this week over a tweet he posted about controversial remarks made by a ruling Justice and Development Party...

Turkey investigating Dutch far-right chief Wilders over tweet

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday launched an investigation into Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders over a tweet in which he wrote "terrorist" accompanying an image...

Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community

Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as "perverts," saying the tweets...

Famous Kurdish poet released from jail, says arrest was unlawful

Famous Kurdish poet, writer and journalist Yılmaz Odabaşı, who was arrested in İstanbul on Wednesday, was released on Thursday and said his arrest was...

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