Turkey among CoE countries with lowest spending on its judicial system: CEPEJ report
Turkey invested as little as 15.6 euros ($17) per capita in its judicial system in 2022, while the average judicial budget of the 44...
Turkish parliament fines opposition deputy for speech on strip-searches in prisons
Human rights defender and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was fined by the Turkish parliament for a speech on strip-search cases...
5-year-old girl succumbs to cancer without saying goodbye to her jailed father
Five-year-old Kübra Kuzan died of cancer on Sunday without being able to see her father, a former bureaucrat removed from his job and jailed...
12 people detained while trying to flee from Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece
Twelve people were stopped by gendarmes and detained in Edirne province over the weekend while they were reportedly on their way to Greece, Turkish media reported...
Pro-Kurdish DEM Party headquarters attacked in Ankara amid political tensions
A late-night attack targeted the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in Ankara on Thursday, following recent political tensions,...
25 journalists imprisoned in half a year in Turkey: RSF
Thirty journalists working in the pro-Kurdish media were detained and 25 of them have been put in prison in Turkey in just half a...
Top court decision to uphold sentence of rights advocate MP draws global outrage
Politicians, journalists and human rights activists from around the world have reacted on social media against a recent decision by Turkey’s top court to...
Pro-gov’t Turkish TV station airs ‘results’ 3 days before elections
A pro-government television station accidentally aired “results” showing the re-election of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with 53 percent of the vote in the...
Turkey detains 12 former police officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police have detained 12 former police officers over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Kronos news website reported on Tuesday....
Journalist Hidayet Karaca has been held alone in a prison cell for more than...
Hidayet Karaca, a prominent journalist and former chief executive of the Samanyolu Media Group who was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to aggravated life,...
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