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MİT trucks case against ultranationalist paper dropped due to statute of limitations

An İstanbul court on Thursday dropped a case against the executives of the ultranationalist Aydınlık newspaper over stories they ran in January 2014 on...

Former coup plot prosecutor gets 13 years in prison over Gülen links

Süleyman Pehlivan, a former prosecutor who took part in the 2003 Sledgehammer (Balyoz) coup plot trial, has been sentenced to 13 years, six months...

Police file report despite denial of knowledge of abducted men

A Turkish journalist living in exile has discovered that the Ankara Police Department filed a report on the abduction of two men earlier this...

Reporter who interviewed harassed university student briefly detained

Reporter Derya Okatan from the Artı Gerçek news website was detained on Thursday and released later the same day after she interviewed Merve Demirel,...

Once-praised district governor receives prison sentence for Gülen links

Kadir Güntepe, a former governor who was once praised by prominent government figures, was sentenced to six years, three months in prison on terrorism...

Activist doctor says after examination deputy on hunger strike is in critical condition

Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a renowned rights activist and a doctor of forensics, has examined Leyla Güven, a deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...

Woman detained for helping families of individuals jailed over Gülen links

A woman has been detained in the Turkish capital of Ankara on accusations that she provided financial assistance to the families of people who...

5.1 magnitude quake shakes Turkey’s western coast

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 struck near the town of Çanakkale on the western coast of Turkey on Wednesday, the US Geological...

Minister on harassed student: I won’t allow pressure on police over a woman with a Gülenist father

Turkish Minister of Interior Affairs Süleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that he would not let the police be pressured over a university student whose...

Nearly 3,000 online news articles censored by Turkey in 2018: report

Turkey censored 2,950 online news articles in 2018 according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2018,” released by the Bianet news website on Tuesday. Turkish...

Document reveals detention of 2,745 judicial members ordered a day after coup attempt

A document published by a Turkish journalist living in exile on Wednesday revealed that a public prosecutor in Ankara had sent a list of...

Prosecutor seeks aggravated life for Kavala, 15 others over Gezi protests

An indictment that has just been submitted to an İstanbul high criminal court demands aggravated life – imprisonment without the chance of parole --...

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