Jailed Kurdish politician gets same sentence in retrial due to remarks about prosecutor
A Turkish court, in a retrial concluded on Friday, handed down a prison sentence of two-and-a-half years to jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the...
Report: 409 women killed, 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017
A total of 409 women were killed and 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will...
Turkish lawyer who went to police station to defend client in custody detained over...
A lawyer who went to a police department to defend another lawyer in police custody in Tokat province was detained by police the same...
Opposition mayor cancels dissident singer’s concert upon request by far-right group
An opposition-run municipality has cancelled a concert by dissident Turkish singer Suavi in Turkey’s conservative heartland of Konya upon a request by far-right ultranationalist...
Number of Gülen followers in İstanbul prison surpasses all others jailed on terrorism charges
The number of inmates in İstanbul’s notorious Marmara Prison who are imprisoned on alleged links to the Gülen movement exceeds all other inmates in...
Erdoğan’s far-right ally renews call to shut down pro-Kurdish HDP: report
The chairman of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), a key ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, urged Turkey’s top prosecutor’s office to...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep...
Kurdish inmate with ALS allegedly mistreated in hospital
The staff of an İstanbul hospital has allegedly mistreated Abdulkadir Kuday, a Kurdish inmate suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), denying him water and...
Prison board deems letter from former judge to opposition lawmaker ‘inappropriate’ and punishes him...
A letter written by imprisoned former judge Hüsamettin Uğur to an opposition lawmaker about poor prison conditions and ill-treatment was confiscated by an administrative...
ECtHR judge: Flood of applications from Turkey could block the court
Işıl Karakaş, a Turkish judge serving at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said on Thursday that an increased number of applications from...
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