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EU parliament report says Turkey slow on promised legal reforms
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament approved a report Monday taking Turkey to task for slow progress on a variety of legal and other reforms agreed to by Ankara as part of its bid for membership in the European Union . Among (More) |
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Turkish court dismisses civil damages case against novelist
A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation from novelist Orhan Pamuk [TIME profile; JURIST news archive], who was sued by six nationalists after he made allegedly unfavorable remarks to a Swiss magazine about Turkey's sta (More) |
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France parliament puts off debate on Armenian 'genocide' bill
The French National Assembly has postponed until at least October debate on a controversial bill sponsored by the opposition Socialist Party [political party website; bill backgrounder, in French] that would make it a crime to deny that the 1915 m (More) |
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Turkey threatens sanctions if France adopts Armenian genocide law
Turkey will impose trade sanctions on France if the French parliament adopts a bill that would criminalize the denial that the World War I-era massacre of Armenians in Turkey constitutes genocide, according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Er (More) |
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Journalist faces retrial for insulting Turkishness
A Turkish appeals court has rejected a prosecutor's recommendation and has ruled that charges still stand against Hrant Dink, a high-profile Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos who has written about the killings of an e (More) |
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Turkish court drops state slander charges against 4 journalists
A Turkish court on Tuesday dropped criminal charges against four journalists over reports critical of a court opinion last fall, but the court upheld charges against a fifth journalist. The court dismissed charges against the four because it held t (More) |
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Turkish journalists go on trial for state slander
Five Turkish journalists went on trial Monday on charges of "insulting state judicial organs" and "trying to influence the judicial process." Prosecutors filed these charges in December for comments regarding the government' (More) |
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Turkish editor gets six month jail sentence for insulting state with Armenian genocide comments
A Turkish court Friday sentenced the editor of Agos , a weekly bilingual Turkish and Armenian-language newspaper, to six months in prison for "insulting and weakening Turkish identity in the media" in several articles he published last yea (More) |
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EU deadlocked over Turkey membership bid
The European Union Monday postponed a ceremony to mark the opening of membership talks with Turkey , without setting a new time. The postponement comes as member states reached a deadlock over the terms for opening the talks on Turkey's propo (More) |
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EU parliament postpones key Turkey vote, calls for recognition of Armenian genocide
The European Parliament Wednesday postponed a key vote on Turkey's potential membership in the bloc and also approved a resolution calling for Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide . EU legislators agreed by a 311-285 margin to delay rati (More) |
Watergate burglary trial began
On January 8, 1973, seven men went on trial in Washington DC in connection with a June 17, 1972 break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.
Read more about the Watergate burglary and cover-up.
