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English PEN report: Freedom of expression in jeopardy in Turkey

The rise of criminal cases involving freedom of expression in Turkey under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a military coup...

70 women detained for assisting victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown

The Turkish government detained more than 70 women on Wednesday evening in five Turkish provinces as part of a Balıkesir-based investigation targeting alleged members...

Prosecutor finds doctor who took own life after firing not a ByLock user after all

Turkish prosecutors have found that a doctor who was removed from his job at a public hospital in Ä°zmir in 2017 due to alleged...

Critical writer Eliaçık faces 7.5 years in prison on terror charges

Renowned Islamic theologian and writer İhsan Eliaçık is facing up to seven-and-a-half years in prison on charges of disseminating the propaganda of the outlawed...

‘I’m not greater than the judiciary,’ Erdoğan tells Juncker over Greek soldiers

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that he is no greater than the Turkish judiciary in responding to...

Turkish gov’t takes control of pro-Kurdish daily, detains 21

Turkish authorities have taken control of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper on the grounds that it has links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party...

Woman jailed over Gülen links not released despite serious health risk

Birgül Bulut, one the more than 17,000 women who have been jailed in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July...

HRW: Turkish gov’t has reached ‘new low’ with social media crackdown

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized the Turkish government for prosecuting large numbers of people in recent weeks over social media posts protesting Turkey’s...

Pro-gov’t journalist: Gülen followers should be forced to commit suicide

Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement to commit suicide. “FETÖ...

Gov’t seizes retirement bonus of rights activist removed from civil service job

Turkey’s Social Security Institution (SGK) has refused to pay a retirement bonus to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists...

Blind journalist transferred to remote prison, held in windowless cell

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has been sent a...

Photo shows jailed teacher at graves of relatives who died after prison visit

A photo showing Burak Aydın, a teacher jailed for alleged Gülen links, visiting the graves of four of his family members who died in...

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