Turkey’s top court follows ECtHR ruling, finds uploading correspondence to judicial network server violates...
A week after a decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Turkey’s top court has ruled that uploading correspondence onto the...
Up to 60 migrants feared dead in eastern Turkey lake after boat sinks: report
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Turkish prosecutors seek up to 3 years for 11 people over protesting trade with...
Turkish prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to three years for 11 people who staged a sit-in outside a government trade office in...
Journalist given suspended sentence on Erdoğan insult charges
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Turkey ordered detention of 68 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
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Infographic: July 15, 2016 | Blow to Human Rights
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Activity report, the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures
State Department 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey
News stories by Turkey's state-run...
Turkey’s education minister sues 168 signatories of secularism manifesto
Turkish Education Minister Yusuf Tekin has said he filed a lawsuit against 168 public figures who recently signed a manifesto titled “We Defend Secularism Together,” escalating...
Top appeals court upholds acquittal of police officers accused of killing minors during Kurdish...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the acquittal of three police officers accused of killing 8-year-old Enes Ata and 17-year-old Mahsum Mızrak by...
Complaints about Turkish Justice Ministry have surged by 266 pct since 2017
The Turkish Ombudsman, which looks into complaints regarding the delivery of public services in the country, received more than 2,500 complaints about the Justice...
I was tortured at Turkish border post, migrant worker claims
Khales Arsan, a migrant laborer from Afghanistan who had crossed into Turkey from the Iranian city of Maku and who had not been heard...
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