Venice Commission watchdog says Turkey ‘on the road to autocracy’
A body of constitutional law experts has warned of a “one-person regime” in Turkey in the wake of proposed constitutional amendments which will establish...
Turkish journalist questioned over article on Armenian youth released after brief detention
Tuğçe Yılmaz, an editor at the independent Turkish news outlet Bianet who was detained by police during an identity check in İstanbul on Tuesday...
OIC member states denounce Quran burning, urge OIC secretary-general to visit Stockholm, Brussels to...
The Executive Committee of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), at the invitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, convened an extraordinary open-ended meeting in Jeddah...
146 workers died in occupational accidents in Turkey in July: report
A total of 146 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in July, according to a monthly report by the Health and Safety Labor...
EU lawmakers agree to cancel pre-accession funds for Turkey due to human rights violations
Members of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee on Tuesday agreed to cancel 70 million euros in pre-accession funds earmarked for Turkey on grounds that...
Prisoner on hunger strike in maximum security Turkish prison calls facility a ‘grave for...
Serkan Onur Yılmaz, who is imprisoned for alleged links to the banned Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C) and has been on a hunger strike for over...
Turkey leads the world in legal harassment of women journalists
Turkey has the highest rate of legal harassment of women journalists in the world and ranks second in the number of women journalists imprisoned,...
TMSF faces criminal complaint due to sale of logistics companies seized over Gülen links
Lawyers for a small opposition party have filed a criminal complaint against officials from Turkey’s Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) due to the fast-track...
Germany’s arms exports to Turkey in drastic fall since Afrin occupation
Germany’s arms exports to Turkey have dropped from nearly 10 million euros to less than 1 million euros in the aftermath of the Turkish...
Turkish police block lawyers’ march to İstanbul Bar Ass’n over arrest of İmamoğlu’s attorney
Lawyers across Turkey gathered at the İstanbul Courthouse on Monday to protest the arrest of Mehmet Pehlivan, lawyer for jailed İstanbul mayor and presidential...
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