Turkish court acquits officer in reported first acquittal in 2016 coup trial
A Turkish court has acquitted Lt. Col. Gurbet Keskin in what was reported as the first acquittal in a trial...
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Former colonel says he was lured to Akıncı under anti-terror pretext and condemned in advance
Former Staff Col. Bilal Akyüz told an Ankara court that he was tricked into going to Akıncı Air Base after...
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Pro-government media abruptly drops coverage of main coup trial after torture claims emerge
Pro-government media outlets gave extensive coverage to the opening of a major trial over Turkey’s July 15, 2016 coup attempt...
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Officer whose ‘confession’ supported Turkey’s coup narrative tells court it was extracted under torture
Lieutenant Colonel Levent Türkkan, former aide-de-camp to Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar, has told an Ankara court that a...
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Scuffle erupts after former Air Force commander’s defense in Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt trial
A scuffle broke out in a courtroom at the Sincan Prison Campus in Ankara after former Air Force commander Gen....
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Turkey detains 93 former police officers in İstanbul-based ByLock operation
Turkish police detained 93 former police officers in an İstanbul-based operation targeting people dismissed or suspended from duty after Turkey’s...
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Turkey issues detention warrants for 85 ministry employees in post-coup probe
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 85 people working at the Energy Ministry and the Education...
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Sociologist Uğur Kömeçoğlu detained in post-coup investigation
Turkish sociologist Uğur Kömeçoğlu has been detained as part of an investigation launched after Turkey’s July 15, 2016 coup attempt,...
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Cartoonist illustrates the plight of 17,000 women imprisoned after Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt
World-renowned cartoonist Carlos Latuff has created an illustration dedicated to the estimated 17,000 women unlawfully imprisoned in Turkey following the...
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Former ruling party lawmaker jailed in post-coup investigation
Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, a former lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, was...
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