Turkish prosecutors want up to 3 years in prison for detainees in anti-government protests
Elif Bayburt, who works for the Etkin News Agency, and Nisa Suda Demirel, from the Evrensel news website, were the latest to ...
Police use force to break up protests at a university in Turkey’s capital
ISTANBUL (AP) — Police used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital early ...
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Imamoglu may remain in prison for up to two years
The Mayor of Istanbul is held in a high-security correctional facility with a section functioning as a military prison—It ...
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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 Court Orders Erdogan Rival Jailed Pending Trial on Corruption Charges as Protests Grow
A court has formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's key rival and ordered him jailed ...
Turkish court jails Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu pending trial on corruption charges
A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on graft charges, state media and other ...
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Arrested and stripped of degree: Twin moves to bar Istanbul mayor from ballot suggests Turkey’s Erdogan is really worried this time
The about-face on Ocalan, who for the past 26 years has been in a Turkish prison, is seen by political observers as an effort by Erdogan to court Kurdish support for a constitutional amendment that ...
Turkey’s opposition leader visits jailed Erdogan challenger Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive ...