Deceased purge victim buried in a hurry, jailed husband not allowed to attend funeral
Fatma Görmez, 43, a former teacher fired from her job by an emergency decree-law who passed away yesterday from multiple health problems, was hurriedly...
HEDEP youth member physically assaulted by police
Edanur İbrahimoğlu, a youth spokesperson for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP), was physically assaulted by police who intervened in a press...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals discussed Gülen movement-related cases with ECtHR officials, judicial records...
A decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals (Yargıtay) has revealed that the judges of one of the court’s chambers met with their counterparts...
EP calls on Frontex to review operations in Greece over migrant pushbacks
The European Parliament has passed a resolution urging Frontex, the European Union agency for common external border management, to “scale down and repurpose” its...
Teacher allegedly subjected to torture, inhumane treatment at Turkish detention center
A teacher who was detained in January 2017 was allegedly subjected for a month to torture including beatings, strip searches and threats of sexual...
Court orders granddaughter of historic Kurdish figure to display Turkish flag on social media...
A granddaughter of Sheikh Said, an iconic Kurdish figure who led a Kurdish nationalist rebellion against the new Republic of Turkey in 1925, has...
Swedish journalists call on Erdoğan to release jailed author Ahmet Altan
Sixteen journalists in Sweden including the heads of prominent journalism organizations have called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take action for the...
Travel ban imposed on journalist for ‘praising’ man who attacked protestor carrying Islamic flag
A travel ban has been imposed on a well-known journalist as part of an investigation launched on accusations of praising a criminal due to...
Germany urges Turkey to release Demirtaş, Kavala as part of human rights action plan
The German Federal Foreign Office has called on the Turkish government to immediately release its political prisoners, some of whom are in jail despite...
Kavala expresses surprise at ‘bold detachment from the law’ in his trial
Businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been in prison since November 2017 without substantial evidence to justify the charges against him, has said...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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