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A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Ayla Albayrak in absentia to 25 months in prison for propaganda charges . The conviction underlying the sentence comes as a result of Albayrak's 2015 story...

A US grand jury indicted 19 people , including 15 Turkish security officials, on Tuesday for attacking protesters during a visit to the White House by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May. The protesters gathered...

The Turkish government has been silencing the media on a massive scale to prevent it from reporting on or criticizing the government's "ruthless crackdown" on its enemies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a 69-page report ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday urged Turkey to investigate the shooting of unarmed civilians . The incident in Cizre , a city in the mainly Kurdish southeastern region of...

A prominent human rights lawyer was fatally shot Saturday while delivering a press statement in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Tahir Elci was an influential figure in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, and he was the head of...

A Kurdish lawyer in Turkey will face trial at a later date for comments he made about the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), when he said the group was not a terrorist organization but a political movement. Tahir Elci was...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Turkish police of "disturbing abuse" Wednesday for their actions towards detainees in the renewed conflict with the Kurdish rebel forces . The abuses include cases in which men were...

A Turkish court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Monday acquitted a Dutch journalist accused of producing propaganda materials on behalf of a Kurdish rebel group. Freelance journalist Frederike Geerdink was charged with disseminating "terrorist propaganda"...

The Turkish Constitutional Court on Friday struck down parts of a controversial law that increased Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's control over the judicial system. Amid protests over suspected government corruption and violence inside parliament,...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday condemned Turkey for violating the rights of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) . The court found...