Municipal staff, CHP provincial chairman among 29 detained in continuing crackdown on main opposition
Turkish police on Monday detained 29 people, including municipal staff and the western province of Uşak’s provincial head of the main opposition Republican People’s...
UN warns Albania over return of critics to Turkey, citing risks of torture, enforced...
The UN Human Rights Council sent an urgent communication to the Albanian government requesting the current whereabouts of Selami Şimşek and urging that it...
Belgian court sentences Turkish man to prison over online threats targeting Gülen followers
A local court in Belgium’s Limburg province has handed down a six-month jail sentence and a 600 euro fine to a 37-year-old Turkish man...
Turkish court arrests journalist Mustafa Gökkılıç over probe into intelligence chief
An İstanbul court on Thursday ruled to arrest journalist Mustafa Gökkılıç and five others as part of an investigation into the 2012 summoning of Hakan...
New PACE president raises concern over Turkey’s failure to enforce ECtHR rulings
Petra Bayr, the newly elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has said Turkey faces a serious problem of...
Turkey’s democratic gains for women under threat as country ranks 125th globally for females...
Women’s hard-won democratic gains in Turkey are at risk, a senior opposition lawmaker warned, as the country’s ranks 125th out of 185 nations for...
PACE rapporteur again calls on Turkey to implement ECtHR rulings after monitoring visit
Stefan Schennach, one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Turkey’s obligations and commitments,...
ECtHR rulings are binding, Turkey’s top court tells lower court
Turkey’s Constitutional Court ordered a retrial due to violation of the defendants’ rights in a case in which the Diyarbakır 6th High Criminal court...
Top human rights groups appeal to Council of Europe for release of Osman Kavala
Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project filed a joint submission with the Committee of...
From presidential palace to top court: Erdoğan appoints aide as court’s new member
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Metin Kıratlı, Turkey’s top bureaucrat serving at Erdoğan’s presidential palace, as a new member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court,...
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