Criminal complaint filed against ex-AKP member over claims of guns delivered on coup night
Lawyers hired by the People’s Liberation Party (HKP), a left-wing populist political party in Turkey, filed a criminal complaint against a former member of...
Investigation launched into Turkish-Cypriot academic for insulting Erdoğan
A police investigation has been launched into Associate Professor Hasan Ulaş Altıok, a Turkish-Cypriot academic, on allegations of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Erdoğan gov’t has not been receptive to UN visit on arbitrary detentions in Turkey...
Turkey has refused to allow an official visit of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had ruled in recent years against the...
Erdoğan says ECtHR issues politically motivated rulings in cases involving Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) of having a double standard when it comes to Turkey...
4 former officers on trial for Gülen links detained while trying to flee to...
Four former military officers who are standing trial in Turkey due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement were captured on Turkey’s...
Investigative journalist reporting from exile targeted by pro-Erdoğan daily
Cevheri Güven, an investigative journalist in exile whose videos on YouTube in which he talks about the Turkish government’s corruption and murky relations attract...
Erdoğan’s government continues its crackdown on critics and opponents: HRW
The arrest last week in Turkey of Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı is the latest in a pattern of politically motivated cases as the government...
Dismissed police officer forced to work as deliveryman dies in traffic accident
Former police officer Hasan Önal (31), a victim of purges that followed a July 15, 2016 coup attempt in Turkey who was fired from...
Turkey misuses counterterrorism legislation to target human rights defenders: UN special rapporteur
Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, said in a statement on Monday that she is deeply concerned by the apparent...
Retired general serving life sentence issued a ‘good health’ report 3 weeks before his...
Vural Avar, 85, a retired general who died in prison on Tuesday, was issued a medical report 22 days before his demise that said...
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