Huge protests across Turkey after president's main rival jailed
Ahead of Turkey's last presidential election in 2023, Human Rights Watch warned social media platforms that reject government ...
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President Erdogan jails his rival, and endangers Turkey’s democracy
Only last week, its government was still what political scientists call a competitive authoritarian regime: although ...
Proto Thema2d
Protests Continue in Turkey: İmamoğlu has one foot in prison, while Erdoğan takes a big risk
Protests in Turkey, especially in Istanbul and Ankara, show no signs of stopping. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has ...
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Banged up abroad: The women fighting to free their seafarer husbands from a Turkish jail
Chief officer Ali Albokhari and Captain Marko Bekavac were jailed for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into Turkey on board ...
Turkish journalist placed under house arrest on accusation of trying to overthrow government
An Istanbul court on Friday ordered prominent Turkish journalist Ismail Saymaz to be placed under house arrest in an investigation connected to nationwide protests in 2013, opposition television ...
Daily Sabah6d
Turkish family working for Mossad faces 22 years in prison
A man, his wife, stepdaughter and four others face prison terms of up to 22 years for secretly working for Israel’s Mossad, ...
Proto Thema2d
Despite bans the people of Istanbul continue protesting: İmamoğlu one step away from prison, while Erdoğan takes a big risk
İmamoğlu is already becoming the face of the main opposition’s battle against Erdoğan and the ruling AKP. He was a strong ...
Turkish police arrest Istanbul mayor, a key Erdogan rival, as government crackdown escalates
He was arrested as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and terror links, media reported, a day after a ...
Police in Turkey arrest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, key rival of President Erdogan
Critics say the arrest of Istanbul's mayor is part of a mounting crackdown by Turkey's president to silence all dissent.