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3 Kurdish journalists referred to court for arrest, 6 released under judicial supervision

Three out of nine Kurdish journalists who were detained earlier this week have been referred to court for arrest after testifying to a prosecutor...

EP Turkey rapporteur criticizes Ankara for labelling people with Bank Asya accounts as ‘terrorists’

The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, has criticized the Turkish government for labelling people who had accounts at now-closed Islamic lender Bank...

Turkey’s own record of freedoms questioned amid Gaza-related criticism of US

Criticism expressed by university administrators in Turkey, where academic freedom and freedom of speech have sharply declined in the past decade, regarding the state...

Perpetrator of Ä°stiklal bombing gets 7 life sentences plus 1,794 years in prison

Alham Albashir, the prime suspect in a deadly bombing that ripped through the busy Ä°stikal Street in central in Ä°stanbul in November 2022, has...

Top Turkish imam under the spotlight after he fails to understand Modern Standard Arabic

The head of Turkey's religious authority is under the spotlight after he failed to understand a journalist's question in Modern Standard Arabic, which is...

Families of victims vow to continue fight after court convicts 9 over Çorlu train disaster

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced nine railroad officials to varying prison terms in connection with a 2018 train derailment that killed 25 people...

ICU patients left to die in undamaged hospital in quake-stricken Hatay: report

Authorities at a hospital in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, which was hit by two major earthquakes last year, allegedly left some 20 patients...

Prosecutor demands sentences for journalists in retrial due to Gülen links

A public prosecutor in the retrial of seven journalists has demanded prison sentences for them on terrorism-related charges due to their alleged links to...

Amnesty slammed for ignoring plight of Gülen movement members in new report

Amnesty International has been criticized for overlooking systematic violations against people associated with Gülen movement, a faith-based group outlawed by Ankara, in its 2024...

Turkey again bans event to commemorate Armenian ‘genocide’ victims during WWI

The İstanbul Governor’s Office has again banned a commemoration ceremony scheduled for today in memory of the Armenians who were killed during a mass...

Turkey’s education ministry snubs EU auditors: report

The European Union's auditors were denied data by Ankara on EU funds going towards educating refugees in Turkey, posing accountability questions, the Brussels-based EUobserver...

Ailing Kurdish woman incarcerated again after ATK finds her ‘fit to remain in prison’

Makbule Özer, an ailing 83-year-old Kurdish woman, was jailed for a second time on Monday after a medical report issued by Turkey’s Council of...

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