Teacher briefly detained for criticizing Erdoğan’s ‘Turkey’s Century’
A teacher has been briefly detained in southern Turkey for allegedly targeting “Turkey’s Century,” an election campaign promise made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkish writer Ahmet Altan held in prison for 1,500 days without a shred of...
The Turkish government has held novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan in İstanbul's Silivri Prison for 1,500 days without a shred of credible evidence that...
Poor prison conditions force new mother serving sentence on conviction of Gülen links to...
A woman arrested four months ago to serve a prison sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement was forced to hand over...
Columnist’s hate campaign against inmate with cancer ends in his death
Radical Islamist Turkish daily Yeni Akit columnist Mehtap Yılmaz’s hate campaign targeting cancer patient Ümit Gökhasan and his release from prison delayed the medical...
Release on parole of Turkish-Armenian journalist’s convicted killer sparks outrage
The release on parole on Wednesday of Ogün Samast, the convicted murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian bilingual Agos weekly, has led...
ECtHR rules rights violated in first purge case from Turkey: report
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a civil servant who was fired in a purge carried out by...
Turkey detains 15 people in operations targeting pro-Kurdish party, lawyers group
At least 15 people, including members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) and the Association for the Freedom of Lawyers (ÖHD),...
Police officer convicted of breaking protestor’s arm walks free after receiving suspended sentence
Police officer E.T., who broke the arm of protestor Zeynal Danacı in Ankara in 2017, was convicted of excessive use of force and sentenced...
‘I’m in prison because I’m a Kurd,’ says jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş
Jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, a two-time presidential candidate and former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who is currently in his...
Justice delayed is justice denied: Another purge victim reinstated to his job postmortem
Mehmet Nasır Sönmez, a teacher who was fired from his job by a government decree without due process, was reinstated two months after his...
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