European intellectuals ask Turkey’s Erdoğan to release social activist Kavala
A group of 35 academics, writers and researchers have come together under the guidance of the European Network on Political Group Analysis Jean-François Bayart,...
Lawyer: Zarrab to cooperate with US authorities
Cahit Akbulut, a New York-based lawyer who is closely following a case against Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab in the District Court for the...
Brunson’s lawyer to appeal to ECtHR if house arrest, travel ban not lifted: report
İsmail Cem Halavurt, the lawyer for jailed pastor Andrew Brunson, who was transferred from pretrial detention to house arrest last month, said they will...
Turkish women’s rights activists rally to protest sexual abuse in police detention
Women’s rights activists rallied on Saturday in Turkey to protest alleged sexual abuse of female detainees held for participating in demonstrations that erupted following...
Man abducted from Tajikistan faces risk of torture, Turkish MP says
Opposition deputy and leading rights advocate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu expressed concern on Wednesday that Koray Vural, a businessman who is believed to have been...
Man arrested for criticizing President Erdoğan and Turkish gov’t in street interview
A man who criticized the Turkish government's policies in a street interview was arrested on Thursday for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and "inciting...
Turkey is not Europe’s ‘refugee warehouse,’ Erdoğan says amid Afghanistan crisis
Turkey is not Europe's refugee warehouse, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said amid an increase in recent weeks in the number of Afghans making...
Former İzmir mayor among 99 facing arrest in corruption investigation
Turkish prosecutors on Friday sought the arrest of 99 former and current municipal officials in the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) bastion of...
Woman calls for release of jailed husband suffering from ulcerative colitis
Buket Turan, whose imprisoned husband is suffering from ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease with a high risk of developing into colorectal cancer,...
Court orders release of remaining 25 May Day protesters
Wednesday’s hearing in the trial of 30 people, 25 of whom were in pretrial detention, for attempting to defy a government ban on holding...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...