İHD: 1,413 detained, 128 tortured in Kurdish-populated region of Turkey in first half of...

At least 128 prisoners were subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and 1,413 people, including 44 children, were detained in mostly Kurdish populated provinces of...

Rights organizations call on Council of Europe to trigger infringement proceedings against Turkey

Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and Turkey Litigation Support Project have called on the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers...

Article 19 calls for acquittal of first journalist tried under Turkey’s ‘disinformation’ law

The Europe branch of Article 19, a London-based international organization defending free expression worldwide, has called for the charges against a journalist who is standing trial...

Israel warns its citizens against travel to Turkey

The Israeli authorities on Monday issued a travel warnings urging Israeli travelers to avoid places where they would be prime targets for jihadist militants,...

Jailed journalist Tunca Öğreten gets married in prison

Diken news website editor Tunca Öğreten, who was arrested in Jan. 17 for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...

Turkey to seek extradition of 33 political dissidents from Sweden, Finland

Turkey’s justice minister said Wednesday that his ministry will seek the extradition of 33 political dissidents from Sweden and Finland under a deal to...

Jailed journalist Mehmet Altan: I am forcefully kept in prison despite binding provision of...

Prominent Turkish academic and journalist Mehmet Altan, who has been kept in a Turkish jail for over 18 months over his well-known liberal views...

Dismissed academic not allowed to study at university as student in Turkey

Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was dismissed from the Ankara University law faculty under a state of emergency decree-law, has not been allowed to study...

Turkey’s top court rules house arrest without questioning suspect violated rights

Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled that a lower court unlawfully restricted a suspect’s freedom by ordering house arrest without questioning the suspect and by...

Turkey’s Erdoğan says he stands with the oppressed of the world

As he continues a massive purge and witch-hunt against his opponents, Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a message for Human Rights...
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