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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...

Turkish court rules to keep Greek soldiers in prison

A court in Turkey’s northwestern Edirne province on Tuesday ruled to keep in prison two Greek soldiers who were detained by Turkish troops patrolling...

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...

Jewelry store chain, Istanbul company seized over alleged Gülen links

Two more companies have been seized as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a...

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...

Wiretaps reveal Erdoğan behind protests in Berlin against Armenian bill

Wiretaps of phone conversations between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Metin Külünk have revealed that Erdoğan was...

Turkey resumes flights to northern Iraq after 6-month international ban

The first Turkish airplane landed at Erbil, the administrative capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, on Tuesday after Turkey lifted its six-month ban on...

Detention warrants issued on Tuesday for 62 over Gülen links

The Ağrı and Mersin chief public prosecutors' offices on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 62 people over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...

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...

EU says no concrete answers from Turkey’s Erdoğan on issues of concern

European Union leaders on Monday said they received no concrete answers from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to a long list of concerns, from...

[OPINION] CPJ downplays the number of jailed journalists in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Although there are varying figures on the number of jailed journalists and media workers in Turkey from different advocacy groups, one thing that...

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...

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