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[UPDATE] Female students among 77 jailed in Gülen-related crackdown in Turkey

Seventy-seven people, including dozens of female students, have been jailed pending trial in southeastern Turkey following a mass detention targeting alleged followers of the...

US judge orders release of Turkish student detained in immigration case

A US judge on Friday ordered the release of a Turkish student detained by federal agents as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s Turkey is too lawless to get even a mafia boss extradited

Adem Yavuz Arslan* As a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decades-long dominance over the media and use of aggressive propaganda strategies, both traditional and...

Turkey to supply natural gas to Syria: energy minister

Turkey is set to deliver 6 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas per day to Syria in the next three months to help...

Exile, digital censorship and fight for press freedom take center stage at journalism event in Frankfurt

As the world marked World Press Freedom Day on May 3, journalists, scholars and artists gathered at the Haus am Dom cultural center in...

Brazilian supreme court releases Turkish-Brazilian businessman sought by Erdoğan gov’t over Gülen links

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has ordered the release of Turkish-Brazilian businessman Mustafa Göktepe, who was arrested last week at the request of the...

Turkey blocked 27,304 social media accounts in first four months of 2025: minister

Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday 27,304 social media accounts had been blocked in the first four months of 2025 as part of the...

EU urged to address censorship by large online platforms at authoritarian governments’ request

Bünyamin Tekin, Brussels Speakers at a Brussels panel discussion marking World Press Freedom Day warned that journalists in exile face increasing censorship from large online...

Authorities must protect Turkish Cypriot journalist after source murdered in Netherlands: CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Turkish Cypriot authorities to provide full protection to a journalist who exposed a cross-border corruption network...

AI-generated avatars of jailed İstanbul mayor flood X in protest of blocking of his account

Supporters of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu launched a viral online protest on Thursday after the social media platform X blocked his account based...

PKK says it held congress aimed at laying down arms, to announce ‘historic’ decisions soon

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced that it held the congress this week called for by jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan, at which...

23 detained in new raids targeting döner restaurant chain seized over Gülen links

Turkish police have detained 23 people in a renewed crackdown on individuals accused of ties to a popular döner restaurant chain recently seized by...

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