Turkey’s top court finds prisoner uniforms unconstitutional

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has abolished a regulation requiring a designated group of inmates to wear a uniform on the grounds that it failed to...

Brother of police inspector found dead in quarantine cell points to ill-treatment and gross...

Harun Kabakçıoğlu, the brother of former police inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu who was found dead on a chair in a quarantine cell in prison in...

Press freedom NGO criticizes harsh sentences for journalists in Turkey

European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) Monitoring Coordinator Gürkan Özturan has condemned the harsh sentences recently handed down by Turkish courts to...

Turkey detained 544 over Gülen links: minister

Turkish police have detained 544 people across 62 provinces over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on...

Number of protestors killed in clashes with Turkish forces in north Syria rises to...

Clashes between armed protesters and guards of Turkish positions in Syria’s north killed seven people, a medical source and a rights group said Tuesday,...

UEFA is considering moving Champions League final from Turkey in event of unrest following...

UEFA has held talks about moving the Champions League final to Lisbon’s Stadium of Light in the event of unrest in Turkey following the...

US senators urge Biden administration to press Turkey on human rights record in bipartisan...

US Senators Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, and Florida Republican Marco Rubio, today urged the new Biden administration to press the Turkish government...

51 detained in Turkey during protest in support of jailed PKK leader

Turkish police on Monday detained 51 people in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır who had gathered to call for the end of prison restrictions...

Turkish women take to the streets to protest femicide and government inaction

Turkish women took to the streets on Monday evening to protest the killing of a woman by her ex-husband in broad daylight, Turkish media...

Leader of main opposition vows to reinstate decree-law victims

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said on Thursday that he will reinstate former officials removed from their jobs...
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