Turkey sees tightened government control in run-up to elections: HRW
Turkey’s government has increased its censorship powers and targeted perceived critics and opponents with bogus criminal proceedings and prison sentences in advance of the...
1-month-old baby accompanies mother jailed for alleged links to Gülen movement
Burcu Levent, a mother of two who was arrested on December 28 in the central Turkish province of Konya for alleged links to the...
Top court finds rights violation in blocking of Bank Asya customer’s funds
In a landmark decision, Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of an applicant who claimed she was blocked from withdrawing money from her...
Germany rejects Turkey’s request for judicial assistance in trial of Kurdish singer and activist...
The Darmstadt Prosecutor General's Office denied a Turkish court's request for judicial assistance in the trial of famous singer and activist Ferhat Tunç, on...
Opposition party leader calls for release of mother of child suffering from bone cancer
Temel Karamollaoğlu, the leader of Turkey’s Islamist opposition Felicity Party (SP), on Tuesday visited a 6-year-old boy hospitalized with bone cancer and called for the...
Turkey’s top doctor and human rights activist Fincancı convicted in chemical weapons trial
A Turkish court has convicted Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the president of the Turkish Medical Association and a renowned human rights activist, of disseminating “terrorist...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 34 people over alleged ByLock use
Turkish authorities ordered the detention of 34 people on Tuesday, including teachers, nurses and active and dismissed police officers, for allegedly using the ByLock...
72-year-old Kurdish inmate dies shortly after belated release from prison
Hamdin Ördek, 72, a Kurdish inmate who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died on Wednesday, six days after he was belatedly released from prison...
International PEN member arrested at airport in İstanbul
Gökhan Yavuzel, a UK-based member of PEN International who has been accused of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and who signed a peace...
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