UN rapporteurs raise concern over prosecution, legal pressure on female environmental defenders in Turkey
UN special rapporteurs have expressed concern that two female environmental defenders in Turkey have faced prosecution, arrest and other legal pressure for their peaceful...
OSCE opens Election Observation Mission ahead of Turkey’s snap polls
The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened its election observation mission in Turkey on Thursday for snap presidential and parliamentary...
Ultranationalist group disrupts protest singer’s İstanbul concert
A group of men disrupted a concert in İstanbul on Monday after a singer performing at it was targeted by the far-right Nationalist Movement...
Top Turkish court reinstates 178 judges, prosecutors removed from office due to Gülen links
Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has in a landmark decision ruled to reinstate 178 judges and prosecutors who had been removed...
9 inmates at Turkish prison attempt suicide in two weeks’ time
A total of nine inmates have attempted suicide in two weeks at a prison in the southern province of Antalya, the Cumhuriyet daily reported.
According...
25 arrested in probes into 2 CHP-run municipalities in İstanbul, İzmir
Turkish courts have arrested 25 people, including a district mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), in two separate investigations into CHP-run...
Turkish President Erdoğan: George and Hans cannot defeat us
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused foreign powers of trying to “weaken” the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) after the Turkish government criticized...
HRW urges Turkey not to expand coal power plant, citing risks to public health
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on Turkey’s Environment Ministry not to approve plans to add two units to a coal power plant in...
‘I am being held in prison on the basis of a fiction,’ says jailed...
Osman Kavala, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who has been jailed since October 18, 2017, said in a written interview he gave through his...
Exiled journos launch Turkish news portal in Germany
A group of exiled Turkish journalists including targeted journalist Can Dündar has launched a Germany-based online news portal titled “Özgürüz" (We Are Free) on...
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