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Turkey’s high court denies request for release of jailed pro-Kurdish party leader

Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a request for release made by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been in jail...

12 more air force officers detained over Gülen links

Twelve air force officers were detained on Thursday as part of a Bursa-run investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency...

Prosecutor demands consecutive life sentences for 60 over Feb. 28 coup

A Turkish prosecutor has demanded consecutive aggravated life sentences for 60 people including İsmail Hakkı Karadayı, former chief of general staff, and Çevik Bir,...

Turkey seeks up to 15 years for journalists, deputy in MİT trucks case

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday demanded up to 15 years' imprisonment for former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet Ankara Representative...

Turkish courts sentence 332 people to prison over links to failed coup

A Turkish court handed down life sentences and lengthy jail terms to 332 suspects as part of 42 trials across Turkey for involvement in...

Turkey issues detention warrants for 6 relatives of NY trial witness Korkmaz

Detention warrants have been issued for six family members of Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former İstanbul police officer who testified at the New York trial...

Court releases former Yalova University rector jailed over Gülen links

  The Yalova High Criminal Court on Tuesday decided to release Niyazi Eruslu, the former rector of Yalova University who was imprisoned over alleged links...

Court releases former İstanbul police chief subject to house arrest

  An İstanbul court on Tuesday ordered the release of former İstanbul Police Chief Hüseyin Çapkın, under investigation over alleged links to the Gülen movement,...

Police raid HDP district bureau, detain co-chairperson

Turkish police on Tuesday raided the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in the Kadıköy district of İstanbul, DHA reported. Following a four-hour search of...

Journalist Kayar detained in police raid in Diyarbakır

Freelance journalist Sertaç Kayar was detained during a police raid on his home in Diyarbakır province on Tuesday, Gazete Duvar reported. According to the report...

Journalist Yazıcı threatened, put in solitary confinement over ‘letter’

Fevzi Yazıcı, the jailed art director of the now-closed-down Zaman daily, was threatened at police headquarters to admit having carried a letter that was...

HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in police custody

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat Araç...

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