Jailed Turkish businessman Kavala says would be uncomfortable if released in deal with Europe
Jailed Turkish businessman and political activist Osman Kavala has said he would be uncomfortable if he were released by a court in Turkey as...
HRW report: Turkey has stopped registering Syrian asylum seekers
Turkish authorities in İstanbul and nine provinces on or near the Syrian border have stopped registering all but a handful of recently arrived Syrian asylum...
Austrian gov’t to shut down mosques, expel 60 Turkish imams
Austria’s right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 60 pro-government Turkish imams in what it said was “just the...
Erdoğan’s henchmen call on Turkish gov’t to seize assets of all Gülen movement followers...
Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, staunch supporters of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the government to seize all assets of...
Turkish gov’t detains 16 military and police officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 16 military officers, military students and police officers in 10 provinces across Turkey on Saturday as part of its massive...
Rights groups say Turkey experiencing worst period in terms of rights abuses due to...
Human rights groups in Turkey said on Monday that Turkey is experiencing its worst period in recent times in terms of human rights abuses...
ECtHR faults Turkey for canceling 3 academics’ passports after 2016 coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as...
PACE rejects Turkey’s candidate list for post of judge at ECtHR
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has rejected a three-person list Turkey has submitted for the post of judge at the...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
Top Turkish court rejects release request by jailed pro-Kurdish HDP deputy
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) on Thursday rejected a request for release made by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Mardin deputy Gülser Yıldırım, who has...
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