PACE refers to jailed pro-Kurdish party MPs as ‘political prisoners’
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), of which Turkey is a member, has passed a resolution referring the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...
Membership in Human Rights Association grounds for dismissal from public service, OHAL commission says
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) said membership in Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) is a sign of ties to the...
IPI – MLSA study: Turkish journalists convicted for their work
According to a trial monitoring study conducted in Turkey by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and the International Press Institute (IPI), journalistic...
Amnesty, 26 NGOs call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners amid coronavirus crisis
Amnesty International and 26 other rights groups and civil society organizations from Turkey and around the world on Monday released a joint statement calling...
30 students detained over alleged Gulen links denied right to consult a lawyer: report
Thirty university students detained by Turkish police over alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement entered the fourth day of detention on Thursday without being...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ nominated by European Parliament for Sakharov Prize
The European Parliament (EP) has announced on Friday that the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) leaders Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdaş, who were jailed...
Turkish police detain 5 Kurdish politicians
Turkish police detained five Kurdish politicians — former mayors and their deputies from the Ergani district of Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır city — on Saturday,...
Prison administration threatens revocation of parole eligibility if sick inmate refuses to withdraw mistreatment...
A sick inmate in Afyon T-type Prison, notorious for mistreating prisoners, was allegedly told to withdraw complaints of mistreatment if he wanted to be...
CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu’s adviser sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison over...
Fatih Gürsul, an adviser to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), was sentenced by an İstanbul court on...
706 children accompany mothers in Turkish prisons: justice minister
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has announced that 706 children are currently living with their mothers in Turkish prisons, Turkish Minute reported on Friday.
Tunç...
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