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Detention warrants issued for 80 in Ankara over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 80 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is...

HRF calls on Kosovo PM to obey int’l human rights law on six detained Turks 

The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Friday sent a letter to Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj requesting him to apply the non-refoulment...

Workers prohibited from speaking in Kurdish at İstanbul construction site

A construction company in İstanbul has sent a letter to one of its subcontracting firms saying that no language other than Turkish should be...

Afrin locals’ remarks mistranslated on Habertürk in favor of FSA

In an apparent move to justify an ongoing Turkish military operation in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the remarks of several locals who...

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...

OSCE’s Désir: Seizure of newspaper a setback to media pluralism in Turkey

The closure of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and the appointment of a trustee to head it is a major attack on the independence of...

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 İzmir 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...

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...

PACE co-rapporteurs to make fact-finding visit to Turkey

Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...

Wife of judge removed from post due to Gülen links jumps to death from 9th floor

Adalet Betül Çağdır, the wife of a former judge who was removed from his post due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, on...

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