Turkey again seeks to close down pro-Kurdish political party
A prosecutor on Monday refiled an indictment that seeks to close down a pro-Kurdish party, the second largest opposition party in the Turkish Parliament,...
PM Yıldırım calls on Germany to choose between Turkey and alleged coup plotters
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has called on Germany to make a choice between Ankara and alleged coup plotters who have sought asylum in...
Turkey’s DİTİB given Big Brother award for spying on Erdoğan critics in Germany
The Cologne-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) has been awarded the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the category of politics for its spying activities against the...
Turkish imam in Australia mobilizes worshippers to spy on Gülen movement
Süleyman Arslan, a member of the board of the Ankara-funded Süleymaniye Mosque in the Australian city of Perth, was revealed to have incited worshipers...
One in every four journalists in Turkey suffered physical violence in 2020: report
One out of every four journalists was subjected to physical violence and half of them received threats in 2020, a report recently released by...
Syrian Kurds: Turkish military forces hit school, water plant in Afrin
Syrian Kurdish groups and Syrian state media have claimed on Wednesday that Turkish military forces shelled a primary school and a water plant in...
Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention spells uncertainty, fear and real danger for millions...
Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women, spells uncertainty, fear and...
Top court rules Turkey violated rights of Gülen-linked teacher abducted from Kazakhstan
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that authorities violated their obligation to investigate credible allegations of torture made by Zabit Kişi, a former teacher convicted...
Turkish gov’t detains 18 military officers, 12 police officers over their alleged Gülen links
Turkish government has detained 17 military officers, 12 police officers in two investigations carried out in Sivas and İstanbul provinces as part of its...
ECtHR risks legitimizing Turkey’s ‘bad-faith’ regime with increased deference to Turkish courts: study
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is in danger of legitimizing Turkey’s authoritarian turn by leaning too heavily on subsidiarity, a legal doctrine...
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