Former Kurdish deputy given 5 more years for terrorist propaganda
Leyla Güven, a Kurdish politician who was ousted from the Turkish Parliament in June 2020, has been handed down a prison sentence of five...
Dismissed teacher reinstated 6 months after he died of cancer
Atilla Yalçıntaş, 59, a primary school teacher who was fired from his job by a government decree without due process, was reinstated six months...
Turkey to lift ban on contact visitation in prisons
Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has said a ban on contact visitation in prisons that went into force in March 2020 due to the...
Amnesty International urges Council of Europe to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey
Amnesty International on Friday called on member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) to institute infringement proceedings against Turkey for failing to implement...
Opposition DEVA Party founder detained on ‘political espionage’ charges
Metin Gürcan, a founding member of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), was detained in a police raid on his house on Friday...
End-stage cancer patient released after spending 56 days in prison despite hospital reports
Ayşe Özdoğan, who suffers from a rare form of cancer, was released on Friday after spending 56 days in prison despite hospital reports recommending...
Police officers sentenced to prison for extorting money from terrorism suspects
Four police officers working at the counterterrorism bureau of the Alanya Police Department have been sentenced to a total of 41 years in prison...
Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 342 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 342 people on terrorism charges due to their alleged links to the faith-based...
13 members of pro-Kurdish HDP detained across Turkey
Turkish police have detained 13 members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in İstanbul, Kocaeli and Erzurum provinces, Turkish Minute reported on Friday,...
Turkish police tear-gas women protesting domestic violence
Turkish police on Thursday fired tear gas at hundreds of women protesting in İstanbul against male violence, Agence France-Presse reported.
The protesters held banners saying...
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Throughout the year human rights organizations...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
Women’s rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
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