ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court upheld life sentences on Tuesday for prominent journalist Ahmet Altan and five others, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, after they were sentenced in February ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that the right to liberty and freedom of expression of Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan had been violated due to his ...

In the trial of journalist-writer Ahmet Altan and journalist Nazlı Ilıcak for "evoking a coup", the Court of Cassation has reversed the verdict and ruled for the release of Altan, considering the time ...

Jailed novelist Ahmet Altan is ‘living what he wrote’ in this tale of repression set in Ottoman Turkey Ahmet Altan, an award-winning Turkish novelist and journalist, is serving a life sentence on ...

Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak have been released from prison in the wake of a verdict of release given by the İstanbul 26th Heavy Penal Court. Ilıcak was behind bars for 1,197 ...

Essay describes the novelist’s strict isolation as he awaits judgment on charges condemned by PEN as punishment for his criticism of Turkish government The prominent Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan has ...

Altan, Ilıcak and others are being retried on bogus terrorism charges. The presiding judge is the same one who oversaw their first trial, which the Bar Human Rights Committee said “gave the appearance ...

The 69-year-old, whose prison memoir I Will Never See the World Again was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize, has been released after retrial The jailed Turkish author Ahmet Altan, whose ...

Released from prison last week after serving 1,138 days behind bars, journalist and writer Ahmet Altan has been detained. An arrest warrant was issued against him yesterday. Journalist and writer ...

Despite his imprisonment, Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan continues to speak his mind. His tireless critiques of Turkey's Kurdish policy and the Armenian Genocide have earned him the ...