Turkey’s top court warns defying its rulings will give rise to criminal liability: report

Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has underlined in a reasoned decision that lower courts don’t have the right to defy its rulings, warning that attempts...

SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna

Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...

Turkey’s main opposition CHP’s jailed deputy Berberoğlu quits medication in protest

Enis Berberoğlu, a jailed deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has refused to take medication he has been prescribed in protest...

Turkish businessman with ties to Gülen movement deported from Algeria

N.N.K., a Turkish businessman with alleged ties to the Gülen movement living in Algeria, was deported to Turkey following a joint effort on the...

Germany investigates Turkish consulate employee, police officer over suspected espionage

German federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Turkish Consulate employee and a police officer of Turkish descent on suspicion of spying for...

Turkish gov’t investigates all members of CHP party assembly over Erdoğan’s complaint

Turkish government has launched a legal investigation about 60 members of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...

Turkey is ranked 48th among 49 countries on LGBT rights in rainbow index

Turkey was ranked 48th among 49 countries as regards the human rights of LGBT people, according to the 2021 Rainbow Europe Map published by the International...

Former general who died in prison had not been released despite medical report

Kemal Mutlum, a former brigadier general who died in prison on November 23, was not released despite a medical report from Turkey’s Council of...

Upholding fundamental freedoms, values essential in EU’s re-engagement with Turkey: Borrell

Upholding fundamental freedoms and values as defined by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) would be essential in the EU’s re-engagement with Turkey,...

Turkish military: One Turkish soldier killed in Afrin operation

The Turkish military stated on Sunday that one soldiers was killed during an operation in the Afrin region of Syria. The military stated on Saturday...
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