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Court rules to continue pretrial detention of Amnesty’s Taner Kılıç

The İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court on Thursday ruled to continue the pretrial detention of Amnesty International’s honorary Turkey chair, Taner Kılıç, at the...

Turkey takes delivery of first JSF jets despite congressional opposition

Turkey took delivery of its first two F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets at a ceremony on Thursday in Forth Worth, Texas, despite the opposition...

17 press freedom defenders write open letter to future Turkish president

Seventeen international organizations defending freedom of expression and the press published a joint letter on Wednesday on the Index of Censorship website addressing all...

Turkish translator indicted over translations of English-language news sources

The İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court on Wednesday accepted an indictment charging Turkish translator Sebla Küçük with disseminating "terrorist propaganda" in three of her...

203,518 Gülen movement followers investigated thus far, Justice Ministry says

Turkish prosecutors have investigated 203,518 followers of the Gülen movement in the past five years, Justice Ministry data released on Monday indicated. According to the...

Enes Kanter’s father indicted by prosecutor seeking 5 to 10 years’ jail time

The Tekirdağ 2nd High Criminal Court has accepted an indictment seeking 5 to 10 years in prison on charges of membership in a terrorist...

Switzerland issues arrest warrants for 2 Turkish diplomats

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has issued arrest warrants for two Turkish diplomats for allegedly planning to kidnap a Turkish-Swiss businessman,...

Turkey’s unemployment rate drops to 10.1 pct but remains in double digits

Turkey’s unemployment rate stood at 10.1 percent in March, falling 1.6 percentage points on a yearly basis but remaining in double digits, the Hürriyet...

Presidential candidate Demirtaş gives first campaign speech from prison

The first of two 10-minute campaign speeches by jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş was aired by public broadcaster TRT on...

[OPINION] Erdoğan gov’t turns to rape as a political weapon in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt As part of an escalating crackdown on the right to dissent, on criticism and on opposition voices in Turkey in recent years, the...

Norwegian rights group expresses solidarity with jailed Turkish journalist

A letter written by Marina Nemat, a Canadian rights activist, writer and chair of the Oslo-based Vigdis Freedom Foundation (VFF) to Turkish journalist Ayşenur Parıldak,...

30.8 percent of Turkish youth neither working nor studying

Eurostat’s latest survey on young people neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) has revealed that 30.8 percent of Turkish youth between...

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