6 Turkish police officers indicted for torturing detainees
İstanbul prosecutors have indicted six police officers on charges of torturing three people in their custody in 2022, the T24 news website reported.
The detainees...
ECtHR faults Turkey for monitoring 3 inmates’ meetings with lawyers
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkish authorities’ monitoring and recording of three applicants’ meetings with their lawyers while they...
Turkey’s far-right party leader calls for closure of top court over judicial crisis
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s far-right ally, has called for either closure or restructuring of the country’s...
Turkish academic on Stanford list of top scientists serving sentence on Gülen links
A Turkish endocrinology and metabolism expert who was included on Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists’ List in 2020, 2021 and 2022 is serving...
Afghan miner killed in northern Turkey to cover up illegal mine: report
An Afghan man who was injured while working in an illegal coal mine in northern Turkey was not taken to a hospital but was...
Kurdish language teacher suffers threats and insults on social media
Mizgin Yalçın, a teacher of the Kurdish language based in Diyarbakır, received numerous insulting and threatening messages on social media after she shared a...
Erdoğan signals limiting top court’s power as he sides with appeals court in crisis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using a judicial crisis involving two high courts due to conflicting rulings on a jailed lawmaker to press...
Turkey’s confiscation of $50 billion from Gülen members constitutes crimes against humanity: report
A comprehensive report exposes the vast scale of property confiscations in Turkey targeting the Gülen movement, a faith-based group outlawed by Ankara, with an estimated value...
Journalist Turkey detained over tweets on May election results, February earthquakes
Journalist Mehmet Kızmaz has been detained over tweets regarding the presidential and parliamentary elections in May and two devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey on...
Lawyers in Turkey face harassment, mistreatment over their work, int’l delegation says
An international delegation comprising 27 bar associations, human rights organizations and legal groups from eight countries reported severe mistreatment of lawyers in Turkey, pointing...
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