CoE rights chief urges Turkey to release LGBT activists detained in nationwide crackdown
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) human rights commissioner on Tuesday called on Turkey to release anyone detained for LGBT rights or other civil society...
Ousted Kurdish mayor attacked by police dogs, tortured in home for hours
Ousted co-mayor of Van’s Edremit Municipality Rojbin Çetin was attacked by police dogs and tortured in her home in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır...
Dismissal from public service based on labor union membership is legitimate, Turkish court rules
An administrative court in Turkey’s eastern province of Malatya has ruled that membership in a labor union is a legitimate reason for dismissal from...
Turkey detains 33 over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have detained 33 people accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run TRT Haber reported.
The detentions are part of an...
Deputy asks for parliamentary investigation into torture claims
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir has submitted an inquiry to the Turkish Parliament on claims of torture in Ankara and...
Turkish Parliament’s Islamist speaker bars actresses from parliamentary performance
İsmail Kahraman, the Islamist speaker of the Turkish Parliament, reportedly told a theatre company that he did not want to see any women on...
Amnesty urges Turkey to reinstate legal status of Syrian asylum seeker diagnosed with HIV
Amnesty International has called on Turkish authorities to immediately restore the temporary protection status of Syrian asylum seeker Ahmad Aabo, who remains without access to essential...
Turkish court sentences 3 journalists over TV commentary
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced three journalists over remarks made on a television program, convicting them on charges of spreading disinformation and violating...
Jailed Turkish journalist Altan awarded Germany’s Geschwister-Scholl Prize
Jailed Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan, 69, has been announced as the recipient of Germany’s prestigious Geschwister-Scholl Prize, German news outlets reported on...
Human rights watchdogs call for release of Kurdish politicians
Human Rights Watch and ARTICLE 19 called on the Turkish government to release former co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş...
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