Sweden ready to offer help to Turkey after massive earthquake, Swedish PM says
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said Sweden is ready to offer help to Turkey after an earthquake early on Monday in south-central Turkey...
Parliament speaker rejects request for inquiry into torture allegations, claiming objectionable language in complaint
Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Şentop returned a letter to human rights activist and lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, claiming that it contained “vulgar...
Hrant Dink’s convicted killer exposes alleged state support in murder
Ogün Samast, the convicted murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has claimed that he was told before carrying out the act that there would...
Reports reveal criminal neglect in case of academic who died of COVID-19 in prison
Evidence of criminal neglect is emerging as reports claim that jailed academic Halil Şimşek, who died in western Çanakkale Prison after contracting COVID-19, had...
İHD co-chair files complaint against prison guards who allegedly beat and sexually harassed female...
Human Rights Association (İHD) co-chair and lawyer Eren Keskin filed a complaint last week against prison guards who allegedly beat and sexually harassed a...
Health ministry fails to provide certificate of good standing to doctor, victim of post-coup...
Turkey’s health ministry has declined an application filed by a doctor who was fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup...
Man suffering from Huntington’s disease imprisoned for a social media post
Bekir Güven, who suffers from the neurodegenerative Huntington's Disease, was sent to prison yesterday after an appeals court upheld a 22-month prison sentence for...
Clooney foundation among rights groups intervening in new Kavala case at ECtHR
The Clooney Foundation for Justice, co-founded by American actor George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife, Amal, is among a number of rights organizations...
CPJ calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting journalists covering Kurdish issues, release jailed members...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to immediately release all imprisoned members of the press and stop prosecuting journalists who cover Kurdish issues.
The Diyarbakır...
Turkish court sentences 20 female university students to prison over Gülen links
Twenty female university students were handed down prison sentences on Friday for alleged links to the Gülen movement, sparking an outcry among activists and...
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