Turkish journalist Ahmet Altan tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases
Imprisoned Turkish journalist Ahmet Altan has topped the December ranking of the One Free Press Coalition’s “10 Most Urgent” list of press freedom cases,...
ECtHR questions Turkey over lengthy detentions after coup attempt
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated questions to the Turkish government regarding alleged rights violations in the lengthy pretrial detention of...
ATO report shows Turkish gov’t keeps detainees in a place akin to a ‘concentration...
The Human Rights Commission of the Ankara Medical Association (ATO) in a new report has harshly criticised a sports hall that was converted into...
Jailed Kurdish leader sentenced to prison for ‘denigrating state institutions’
A Turkish court sentenced Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to more than two years in prison for remarks...
Former teacher arrested and sent to prison with 8-month-old baby while trying to flee...
Former teacher Büşra Çulha was arrested on Friday and sent to prison with her eight-month-old baby while trying to flee persecution in Turkey, the...
Turkey’s top court denies release of former colonel suffering from advanced stage MS
Mustafa Özcan Çay, a former staff colonel convicted on coup charges, was denied release from prison by Turkey’s Constitutional Court despite his inability to...
Patriarch Bartholomew says minorities should not be hostages to Turkish-Greek disputes
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has said minorities in Turkey and Greece should not be treated as hostages to political disputes between the two countries,...
Kurdish journalist from Turkey given ‘Human Rights Defenders at Risk’ award in Dublin
Irish human rights organization Front Line Defenders has named Turkey's Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal its Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for...
Turkey’s top court orders retrial of man convicted for wearing ‘Kurdistan’ T-shirt
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that convicting an individual for wearing a T-shirt bearing Kurdish symbols on charges of promoting a terrorist organization violated...
More than 500,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey have gone home: Erdoğan
More than half a million Syrians who had fled their conflict-wracked country for neighboring Turkey have returned home since 2016, Turkish Minute reported, citing...
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