Phone seized in fraud investigation reveals bribery involving prosecutors
A mobile phone that was confiscated as part of a fraud investigation in central Turkey has revealed messages indicative of bribery involving the suspects...
Top court ruling preventing arbitrary passport bans goes into effect
Turkey’s Interior Ministry will no longer impose arbitrary restrictions on Turkish passports in line with a ruling from the Constitutional Court that has recently...
Prison administration continues limiting water supplied to former police chief jailed for conducting 2013...
A prison administration in Tekirdağ province continues to limit water supplied to former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014...
PACE committee urges stronger action to eradicate torture and ill-treatment in detention facilities in...
Adopting a draft resolution on June 21 based on a report by Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Committee...
Turkey’s Erdoğan issues a veiled threat of killing each and every Jew amid Jerusalem...
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Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has issued a veiled threat on Monday of killing each and every Jew with a shocking reference to apocalyptic...
Turkish court files complaint against lawyer of academic who died in prison, due to...
Judges of the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court have filed a complaint with a prosecutor against Mustafa Bal, the lawyer representing academic Tuğrul Özşengül,...
HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question about the neglect of Armenian heritage sites
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Garo Paylan has submitted a parliamentary question addressed to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism asking why Armenian churches...
Meta to temporarily shut down Threads platform in Turkey
Meta Platforms Inc said it is temporarily shutting down its social networking platform Threads in Turkey as of April 29 in order to comply...
ECtHR to announce judgment on missing Yusuf Bilge Tunç: sister
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will announce its judgment in the case of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who went missing 30 months ago...
Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Turkey: 2021 in Review
Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment in custody over the past six years and especially since a coup attempt on...
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