Turkey issues detention warrants for 40, including 23 active duty soldiers over alleged Gülen...
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday issued detention warrants for 40 people, including 23 active duty and 12 dismissed members of the...
Jailed Kurdish journalists indicted on terrorism charges due to their news reports
Three Kurdish journalists who had been detained as part of an İstanbul-based investigation and were arrested by a court last month have been indicted on terrorism...
Members of anti-gov’t Furkan Foundation allegedly tortured, threatened by Turkish police
Police allegedly subjected three members of the Furkan Foundation, an anti-government religious group, who were detained on September 10 to torture and mistreatment at...
Turkey detains 90 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 90 people across 17 provinces over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by the government,...
Tribunal set up to rule on Turkey’s human rights record: Chair of EP human...
The Turkey Tribunal was set up to review and rule on Ankara’s human rights record, Marie Arena, chair of the European Parliament (EP) Subcommittee...
Ministry denies request to probe bar association over criticism of Turkey’s military ops
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has denied a request from prosecutors to launch an investigation into bar association executives in the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır...
Negligence in tunnel collapse that killed 11 workers was covered up: Turkish Court of...
The Turkish Court of Accounts said an incident on September 24, 2020 in which an explosion took place in a mountain tunnel under construction,...
Fearing for her life, widow of former Grey Wolves leader pleads for protection
Ayşe Ateş, the widow of slain former Grey Wolves leader Sinan Ateş, has made a desperate plea to Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya and...
CHP İstanbul chair faces imprisonment for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan’s communications chief
The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has submitted an indictment requesting between one year, two months and two years, four months’ imprisonment for Republican People’s...
NGO report on Turkey’s prisons highlights widespread mistreatment, rights violations
Turkish prisons are beset by persistent issues of torture, overcrowding and discriminatory practices, according to the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation of...
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