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Two journalists detained in Gaziantep based on ‘reasonable suspicion’

Two journalists working for the Dihaber news website, Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman, were detained on Thursday evening in the southeastern province of Gaziantep...

[UPDATE] CHP to attend coup commemoration event after last-minute invitation

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) spokesperson Bülent Tezcan has announced that CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and the party's deputies are going to attend...

Jailed HDP deputy Demirel given 90-month prison sentence on terror charges

Çağlar Demirel, one of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a prison sentence of 90 months...

Turkey’s judicial board replaces 154 judges

The first chamber of Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has replaced 154 judges under a summer decree, the Diken news website reported...

10 officers arrested over Gülen links in Konya-based coup probe

Ten military officers were arrested on Friday as part of a Konya-based investigation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in the military,...

Evrensel daily editor-in-chief investigated for insulting Erdoğan in article

The Evrensel newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Fatih Polat, said on Thursday he is under investigation on allegations of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in one...

Court upholds suspended sentence for deputy from pro-Kurdish HDP

The 4th Chamber of the Gaziantep Regional Court of Justice on Thursday upheld a two year, six month suspended sentence for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...

RSF: Turkish journalism in the throes of death, European court last hope

Assessing the state of the media in Turkey in a report for the anniversary of a failed coup attempt in the country on July...

Eight PKK members ‘neutralized’ in Hakkari province

Eight members of the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who were allegedly planning an attack were “neutralized” during military operations in Hakkari province,...

HDP files criminal complaint against TRT for causing public harm

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has filed a criminal complaint against the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) for causing public harm,...

‘Everybody will need justice one day,’ says detained Amnesty activist

Amnesty International (AI) Turkey Director İdil Eser, who was detained on July 5 in İstanbul with seven other human rights defenders, has said in...

Suspect wearing ‘hero’ T-shirt in coup trial thrown out of courtroom

One of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of a failed coup in Turkey...

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