This case is one of the many other sad ones I see from time to time. Thanks to a journalist who took the shot above, we know that Kemal Kurt was shot dead. The official explanation was that he was a suicide bomber or sth like that. But he was just attending a rally…


ÇORLU TRAIN DERAILMENT: Non-Prosecution for Drivers, Indictment for Four Railways Employees
At least half a dozen European journalists were barred from a press conference and signing ceremony on Thursday announcing €275 million in European Union money for Turkish rail projects. The grant will help fund the construction of a railway
2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award Goes to Saturday Mothers
Artist Zehra Doğan, a Kurdish painter and journalist, has been released from a Turkish prison. Dogan, originally sentenced to two years, 9 months and 22 days on 24 March 2017, was tried over a painting depicting the destruction in the town of
The first hearing in a murder-rape case that has engrossed and enraged millions of people in Turkey was held on 6 February. Şule Çet, a 23-year-old university student fell to her death from the 20th floor of a plaza in the capital city…
Defendants Erol Önderoğlu, Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Ahmet Nesin face “terrorism propaganda” and “incitement” charges The latest hearing in the trial of Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) Turkey
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