Turkey’s top court overturns aggravated life sentence in brutal femicide case

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned the aggravated life sentence of a man who brutally murdered a young woman in 2020, sparking outrage...

Human rights activist and former teacher arrested for protesting human rights violations

Acun Karadağ, a human rights activist and a former teacher who was dismissed from her job by an emergency decree-law as part of a...

Jailed mother separated from her premature newborn, not allowed to breastfeed for 6 days

Özlem Meci, who was arrested during a pregnancy in 2017 in an attempt to force her wanted husband to surrender, was separated from her...

Woman falsely convicted of terrorism says her imprisonment has taken a toll on children’s...

Nesibe Nur Akkaş (41), a homemaker and mother of three imprisoned on bogus terrorism charges, said her imprisonment has scattered her children around the...

1 journalist arrested, 4 released on judicial probation for ‘targeting public officials’

A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of one of five journalists detained on Tuesday on allegations of targeting public officials while four...
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New ‘research center’ a dead end for purged diplomats reinstated by the courts

Career diplomats who were purged from the Foreign Ministry by the Turkish government and subsequently reinstated by the courts will be employed in a...

Vice chairman of major conglomerate seized over Gülen links now lives a simple life...

Turkish businessman Osman Nakıboğlu, vice chairman of Naksan Holding before it was seized by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government...
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Former Supreme Court of Appeals judge tortured and mistreated in prison

Nalan Dilara Uğur, daughter of former Supreme Court of Appeals judge Hüsamettin Uğur, has claimed in a series of tweets that her father was...

601 military personnel to be dismissed by administrative procedure despite non-prosecution on terrorism charges

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office sent the files on 601 military personnel who can’t be prosecuted on terrorism charges due to a lack...
US Consulate Istanbul

Another US Consulate employee in Istanbul facing prison on terrorism charges

A Turkish prosecutor has demanded up to 15 years’ imprisonment for Nazmi Mete Cantürk, a security officer at the US Consulate General in Istanbul,...
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