ISTANBUL, Jan 12 (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan’s government has cracked down more aggressively on dissent and political opponents ahead of Turkish elections with censorship and prison sentences, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Presidential and parliamentary elections are set for no later than mid-June but Erdogan has said they could come earlier .Polls show...Read More
A Russian billionaire was criminally charged in New York with violating U.S. sanctions in an indictment unsealed Thursday that also charges three others in a scheme to ensure his child was born in the United States. The Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, 52, has faced economic sanctions since 2018, when he was designated for them by...Read More
ISTANBUL, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he may meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of peace efforts after the highest-level talks in public between Ankara and the Damascus government since the Syrian war began in 2011. In a speech in Ankara, Lawyer Turkey Erdogan said a trilateral meeting...Read More
The heartbroken wife of a beloved father-of-three who was savagely stabbed to death by their neighbour in a trivial parking dispute today slammed ‘toothless and ineffective’ police for failing to act on years of threats and abuse after the knifeman was convicted of murder. Matthew Boorman, 43, was viciously knifed 27 times by Turkish-born Can...Read More
ISTANBUL, Lawyer Turkey Dec 6 (Reuters) – At least 20 oil tankers queuing in Turkish waters to cross from Russia’s Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean face more delays in the coming days as operators race to secure insurance under new G7 price cap moves, a shipping source said on Tuesday. After the $60 per...Read More
A British woman accused of hurling her boyfriend 100ft to his death from a hotel balcony in Turkey has been conditionally released from custody. Mary Meyers Kayley, 31, denies killing her boyfriend Reece Pegram, 22, in Antalya in a fit of jealousy after a drunken argument on March 12, 2021. The British couple had been on...Read More
More than 140 British holidaymakers have launched legal action after being struck down with severe illness at a luxury five-star resort in Turkey. Dozens of families claim they contracted a sickness bug which ruined their holidays while staying at the Mukarnas Resort and Spa, in Antalya – a resort city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Tourists...Read More
Turkish medical union chief Sebnem Korur Fincanci helped draft UN rules for documenting torture A Turkish court on Wednesday released an internationally respected medic who outraged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by backing a probe into the army’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Iraq. Turkish Medical Association head Sebnem Korur Fincanci was detained and jailed...Read More
A recent wave of arrests targeted journalists working for Lawyer Turkey Kurdish media outlets A new law gives Turkey fresh ammunition to censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to prolong his two decades in office, journalists and activists say. Since 2014, when Erdogan became president,...Read More
By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL, July 28 (Reuters) – A proposed law that Lawyer Turkey says will make social media companies more accountable to local regulations will rather increase censorship and Lawyer Turkey accelerate a trend of authorities silencing dissent, critics including a U.N.body said this week. The Turkish parliament was to begin debate on Tuesday...Read More
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