Gültekin Avcı Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit, was detained on Saturday due to an appeal from a prosecutor, one day after being released pending trial by a Turkish court, according to ...
Muhammed Koşar and his family. PHOTO: Sevinç Özarslan A 46-year-old disabled teacher who was removed from his job due to alleged links to the Gülen movement was sent to jail after an appeals court upheld ...
A Turkish teacher said three unidentified men tried to abduct him in Ankara as he was about to get into his car but that they fled after he started shouting and managed to attract a ...
Former member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan. PHOTO: Cumhuriyet A panel of five judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Monday rejected Turkey’s request to refer to the court’s Grand Chamber ...
Turkey’s first drilling vessel, Fatih, starts conducting its first deep drilling in offshore Antalya on the county’s southern Mediterranean coast, Turkey on October 30, 2018. AFP PHOTOS Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades has made an ...
Veli Saçılık Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest in Ankara against the Turkish government’s removal from office ...
US Department of State building. The US Department of State on Thursday updated its travel advisory on Turkey, urging increased caution due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions. “Updated Turkey Travel Advisory was published last night. ...
Turkish rappers on Friday released two new songs criticizing the Turkish government and urging the public, especially young people, to raise their voices against political and social injustice as well as human and animal rights ...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has sentenced the leader of the Istanbul branch of Turkey’s main opposition party to nearly 10 years in prison over a series of tweets. Anadolu ...
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