Turkish authorities must cease all actions aimed at criminalizing independent reporting: Council of Europe
Turkish authorities must cease all actions aimed at blocking or criminalizing independent reporting and take steps to restore judicial independence and to ensure the...
Turkish woman returned to prison immediately after giving birth
Yasemin Baltacı, who was arrested over her alleged links to the Gülen movement just two weeks before the end of her pregnancy, was reportedly...
Kurdish journalist arrested over social media posts about colleagues killed in drone strike
Turkish authorities have arrested Öznur Değer, a reporter for JINNEWS, over social media posts about two Kurdish journalists killed in a drone strike in...
Turkey’s top court removes freeze on funds allocated to pro-Kurdish party
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has removed a freeze on state funds allocated to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as the country heads toward presidential...
Elderly man with severe health problems found ‘fit to remain in prison’ by hospital
An ailing 83-year-old man in southeastern Diyarbakır Prison has been given a medical report saying he is fit to remain in prison despite a...
EU says provision of funeral services a question of decency, human rights
A spokesperson for the European Union has criticized the denial of a hearse to transport the bodies of three people, including two infants, who...
Erdoğan aide, justice minister slam The Economist over report on Turkish gov’t crackdown
The Turkish presidency’s communications director and the country’s justice minister have condemned a recent report by The Economist detailing a renewed government crackdown on opposition politicians,...
Report reveals widespread discrimination of refugees in Turkey’s quake zone
Following massive earthquakes in southern Turkey last month, refugees in the quake zone – most of them Syrian – have been subjected to “multi-layered discrimination,”...
‘Right to a fair trial’ most violated right in Turkey, top court statistics show
Statistics on individual applications filed at Turkey’s Constitutional Court over the past eight-and-a-half years show that the “right to a fair trial” has been...
Turkish president’s spokesman slams Newsweek for article targeting Erdoğan
İbrahim Kalın, the spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has slammed a Newsweek article harshly criticising Erdoğan, calling it “one of the worst pieces...
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