Turkey blocks X accounts of journalist, commentator and Kurdish-focused news agency
Turkish authorities have blocked access to the X accounts of journalist Fırat Fıstık, social media commentator Nasuh Bektaş…
Turkey releases singer under travel ban in obscenity probe
A Turkish court on Friday released pop singer and songwriter Mabel Matiz under a travel ban after police…
Turkish regulator orders rights group to remove reports on abuses against women
Turkey’s telecommunications and internet regulator has told one of the country’s oldest human rights organizations to remove two…
Turkey investigates opposition lawmaker for allegedly insulting, threatening Erdoğan
Turkish prosecutors have opened an investigation into an opposition lawmaker on suspicion of insulting and threatening President Recep…
Five children, 90-year-old among 20 detained at Turkish mining protest
Turkish gendarmes detained some 20 people, including five 14-year-old teenagers and a 90-year-old woman, on Wednesday after local…
Kurdish shopkeepers hospitalized after alleged racist mob attack in Istanbul
Two Kurdish shopkeepers were hospitalized after being beaten with sticks by a large group in Istanbul in what…
Turkey blocks thousands of social media accounts over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish authorities have blocked access to 3,679 social media accounts they allege were connected to the faith-based Gülen…
Turkey arrested at least 6 journalists in second quarter of 2026: report
Turkish courts sentenced six journalists to a combined seven-and-a-half years in prison during the second quarter of 2026,…
Turkey’s media regulator investigates Sözcü TV after anchor calls Syria’s Sharaa a ‘killer’ and ‘terrorist’
Turkey’s broadcast regulator on Friday opened an investigation into remarks on government-critical broadcaster Sözcü…
Turkey detains 128, jails 51 over alleged Gülen movement links
Turkish security forces have detained 128 people in raids across 22 provinces and jailed 51 of them pending…
Newly published statement details Turkish woman’s police abuse allegations
A 51-page court statement submitted by a Turkish woman imprisoned on a conviction of alleged links to the…
Victims denied justice over 1993 arson attack that killed 35 at Alevi festival in Turkey: top court
The Sivas Massacre Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the state failed to pursue justice in the case of a…