Journalist Sinan Aygül convicted of spreading terrorist propaganda for publishing an interview

A court in the province of Bitlis convicted journalist Sinan Aygül of disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization because of an interview he...

Gülmen and Özakça to end hunger strike if purged civil servants reinstated to jobs

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two educators who went on a hunger strike after they were fired by government decrees in the aftermath of...

Infographic: July 15, 2016 | Blow to Human Rights

    Sources: Activity report, the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures State Department 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey News stories by Turkey's state-run...

Former CHP deputy given 4-year jail sentence on terrorism charges

Eren Erdem, a former deputy from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has been handed down a jail sentence of four years, two...

Council of Europe calls on Turkey to enforce ECtHR ruling for Kavala release

Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić has urged Turkey to comply with its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights...

Turkey’s religious authority ignores court ruling, re-sanctions imam for refusing to take congregation to...

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has sanctioned an imam again for refusing to bring his congregation to a 2023 rally for President Recep...

Press groups call on Turkey’s top court to annul controversial media law article

Press organizations in Turkey have called on the country’s Constitutional Court to annul a controversial article of a media law which they say is...

Swedish PM calls organizers of anti-Turkey events ‘useful idiots for foreign powers who want...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference on Tuesday that the people who organized a Quran burning and hanged an effigy...

66.4 percent of Turkish voters prefer parliamentary system: poll

Two out of every three voters in Turkey support the parliamentary system of governance over the executive presidential system that the country voted to...

31 MEPs urge EU action for release of CoE youth delegate arrested in Turkey...

Thirty-one members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to take urgent diplomatic and political steps for the release of Enes...
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