İstanbul bar slams arrest of jailed mayor’s lawyer as attack on legal profession
The İstanbul Bar Association on Friday denounced the arrest of a lawyer representing jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the biggest political rival to President...
71-year-old jailed author Altan fails to get access to COVID-19 vaccine
Prominent Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan, 71, who has been behind bars for some five years, has failed to get a response to...
Court rejects indictment against fashion designer due to lack of credible evidence
An İstanbul court has rejected an indictment against fashion designer Barbaros Şansal which sought a jail term of up to three years for him...
Turkish gov’t aims to diminish bar associations’ role as human rights watchdogs: HRW
The Turkish government’s plan to allow for multiple bar associations appears calculated to divide the legal profession along political lines and diminish the biggest...
Turkish gov’t puts property of 5 shuttered media outlets up for sale
Turkey’s Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put property belonging to five media outlets that were closed down by the Turkish government in the...
112 journalists given various jail sentences in Turkey in 2018
A total of 520 journalists appeared in court in 2018, and 112 of them were given jail sentences of varying durations including aggravated life,...
Campaign launched for 5 children abandoned after mother detained
Journalist Mahir Zeynalov has launched a fundraising campaign for five children who were left alone in tears in front of Sincan Prison in Ankara...
177 people die in workplace accidents across Turkey in October
One hundred seventy-seven workers in Turkey, two of whom were children and 10 of whom were women, lost their lives in workplace accidents in...
Dutch gov’t says Turkish FM’s referendum campaign in Netherlands ‘undesirable’
Amid strained ties between Turkey and Germany over the cancellation of two Turkish ministers’ rallies, the Dutch government also announced on Friday that Turkish...
Paradise Papers show Turkish PM’s sons involved in offshore holdings
Data released on Nov. 5 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the offshore activity of current or former leaders of famous...
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