YARSAV’s Arslan, jailed by Turkish gov’t, on shortlist for Václav Havel Human Rights Prize
Murat Arslan, president of the now dissolved Association for the Union of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), has been placed on the shortlist of candidates...
3 journalists among 28 Kurds indicted in Turkey over anti-war vigil
A Turkish court has accepted an indictment of 28 Kurds, including three journalists, over their participation in a 2024 anti-war vigil in the southeastern...
26 detained in İzmir bribery probe amid crackdown on Turkey’s main opposition
Turkish police on Thursday detained 26 municipal officials and employees in the western city of İzmir in a bribery investigation targeting a district municipality...
EU reacts to journalist Parıldak’s re-arrest
The European Union (EU) has reacted to the recent re-arrest of 27 year-old Turkish journalist Ayşenur Parıldak after she was released pending trial.
Parıldak, a...
Turkish journalist under suicide risk re-arrested a few hours after release
Ayşenur Parıldak, a 27-year old Turkish journalist, has been arrested again a few hours after an Ankara court released her from nine-months pre-trial detention...
Violation of women journalists’ rights continues in Turkey
The violation of women journalists’ rights in Turkey continued in September, according to a monthly reportreleased by the Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ).
“At...
COMMENTARY — What did you want from Ayşenur?
By Arzu Yıldız
"Ayşenur was a person who could not even tell a simple lie on the phone, and I did like her this way...
Three Turkish soldiers killed in four days of Afrin operation in Syria
Turkey has lost three soldiers in the four days of Operation Olive Branch in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria. According to media reports, Lt....
Opposition deputy viciously attacked following threats from interior minister
Barış Atay, a deputy from Turkey’s Workers’ Party (İP), was attacked by a group of men in İstanbul just past midnight on Monday following...
Jailed MP in Turkey stripped of parliamentary status despite top court rulings
The Turkish parliament announced in the plenary session on Tuesday a ruling by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals upholding an 18-year prison sentence for...
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