Turkish court again defies Constitutional Court ruling in Gezi Park case
A Turkish court has for the second time refused to enforce a binding Constitutional Court ruling ordering a retrial for jailed urban planner Tayfun...
Turkish prison board denies probation to ousted Kurdish mayor of Diyarbakır
A Turkish prison administration has rejected an application for probation filed by Selçuk Mızraklı, the ousted co-mayor of Diyarbakır, the Artı Gerçek news website...
Report details how Erdoğan’s Turkey institutionalized hate speech against Gülen movement
A new report by the Netherlands-based human rights group Stichting Justice Square reveals how the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan institutionalized hate...
Turkish lawmakers seek probe into alleged sexual threat against 17-year-old girl in pretrial detention
Lawmakers from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) have called for a parliamentary investigation into alleged rights violations and a sexual...
Jailed İstanbul mayor, wife receive ‘Award for Courage’ from German foundation
The Axel Springer Freedom Foundation in Germany has presented its Award for Courage to jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his wife, human rights advocate Dilek...
Senior PKK figure rules out revival of group, says ‘there’s no going back’
A senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has ruled out any return to the militant group’s former structure, saying it has...
Turkey again ranks 10th globally in organized crime index, lags in resilience
Turkey has maintained its position as one of the world’s most criminalized countries, ranking 10th out of 193 nations in the 2025 Global Organized Crime...
Elderly Turkish inmate collapses amid worsening health, family fears he could die in prison
A 72-year-old man serving a prison sentence in Turkey for alleged links to the Gülen movement collapsed in his cell last week while seriously...
İstanbul mayor says indictment seeking to jail him for 2,430 years is built on...
İstanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on Wednesday rejected what he called a “fabricated” indictment seeking a record sentence of up to 2,430 years in...
Turkey charges 4 journalists with aiding criminal organization in İmamoğlu indictment
Four Turkish journalists have been charged with aiding a criminal organization and publicly spreading false information in an indictment that also seeks up to...
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