Spying by Turkish diplomats in Singapore triggered criminal investigation in Turkey, documents reveal
The Turkish government used its diplomats in Singapore to profile opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and gather intelligence about them to help...
Turkey’s HSK refuses to review claims of witness tampering by prosecutors in lawyer’s murder
Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has refused to consider a complaint against two prosecutors who investigated the 2015 murder of a prominent...
Teacher to serve sentence on Gülen link conviction despite severe illness
Cafer Türker Hadimioğlu, 44, a math teacher designated as disabled by a medical board for suffering from ulcerative colitis and diabetes, was sent to...
Former Turkish director of Pak-Turk school, his family kidnapped from Lahore
Former director of Pak-Turk School, Mesut Kaçmaz, a Turkish national, has reportedly been kidnapped along with his family in the early hours of Wednesday...
Turkey’s top court accepts indictment seeking to disband pro-Kurdish party
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Monday accepted an indictment by a top prosecutor seeking to disband a pro-Kurdish opposition party on terror-related charges, The Associated...
New report examines systemic rights violations in ByLock prosecutions
A new report released on Wednesday by the London-based human rights organization Statewatch reveals systemic human rights violations by Turkish authorities in their prosecutions of people...
European court rules Turkey violated top judge’s rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the right to liberty and security as well as the...
ECtHR faults Turkey for violating rights of top judicial board member dismissed in 2014
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Adem Kartal, the former vice president of the Supreme Board of...
Counterterrorism police accused of extorting money from wealthy suspects
Four police officers working at the counterterrorism bureau of the Alanya Police Department have been accused of extorting money from wealthy suspects who were...
Turkey’s inflation climbs to 68.5 percent in March: official data
Price growth in inflation-plagued Turkey gained pace in March, rising to 68.5 percent year-on-year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said on Wednesday.
The increase followed a Sunday...
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