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An indictment has been drawn up by a Diyarbakır prosecutor for two Vice News journalists who were arrested and released in Turkey in 2015, demanding a total of 82.5 years on charges of terrorism. Reporter Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury were arrested on Aug. 29 in Diyarbakır and released in September. While they were

“A prominent columnist wrote recently about how President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey hates cigarettes so much that he confiscates packs from his followers, lecturing them on the evils of smoking.The columnist, Kadri Gursel, then urged his readers to protest the president’s anti-democratic ways by lighting a cigarette and not putting it out. For that,

The office of the prosecutor in Diyarbakır on Thursday launched an investigation into the co-chairman of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) following a speech he gave the same day in the city to protest the detention of the co-mayors of Diyarbakır. According to the official statement, Selahattin Demirtaş is subject to an investigation for “calling

Police teams have intervened in a crowd that gathered in front of the Diyarbakır municipal building to protest the detention of the city’s co-mayors on Tuesday, detaining 25 people. Diyarbakır Co-mayors Gülten Kışanak and Fırat Anlı were detained on terrorism charges on Tuesday evening in a development that caused outrage and sparked protests in the

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 170 people were arrested, while 28 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at least 16 provinces

An American journalist in Turkey, Lindsey Snell, released on Wednesday from a Turkish prison, said her husband was arrested for having a dollar bill, considered sufficient proof in the country of affiliation with an alleged terrorist organization. Snell, who was arrested in Turkey on Aug. 6 and released Oct. 12, wrote on Twitter that “Turkey

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 149 people were arrested, while 213 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

A noncommissioned officer committed suicide in the police station where he had been held in detention for alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a July 15 coup attempt, the t24 news website reported on Monday. According to the report the noncommissioned officer (39), identified only by the initials Ö.İ.,

Anatolia Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 121 individuals who include administrators and members of the Kimse Yok Mu aid foundation in the latest wave of an ongoing witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement. As part of the operation, which was based in İstanbul, police was conducting searches in dozens of locations

Turkey’s newly emerged scapegoat, the Gülen movement, has been targeted once again with the Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli suggesting alleged links between the movement and the recent downgrade in the country’s sovereign debt rating by Moody’s. “I have recently received an intelligence report dated back to 10.09.2016 that features an interesting part. It quotes