Exiled journalist establishes publishing house to print books banned in Turkey
Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist living in exile, has said a publishing house has been established in Germany to print books that have been...
Inmates objecting to unlawful strip-search beaten in Turkish prison
Inmates were beaten by guards for resisting a strip-search when they were transferred to Tekirdağ Prison in northwestern Turkey, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA)...
Opposition MP not allowed to visit critically ill woman in prison
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairwoman Gülizar Biçer Karaca wasn’t allowed to visit critically ill Ayşe Özdoğan, 34, who was sent to...
460 inmates in Turkish prisons have doctorates, Justice Ministry says
Four hundred sixty inmates in Turkish prisons have doctorates and 2,371 have master’s degrees, according to the general directorate of prisons and houses of...
Turkish asylum seeker dies in Germany after fleeing persecution in Turkey
A 31-year-old man who fled to Germany in search of a safer life after being sentenced to prison in Turkey for alleged links to...
Turkey fails to propose a plan to release Demirtaş to CoE committee
The Turkish government has said that Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), may be released on parole on...
Majority in Turkey doesn’t trust judicial system, poll reveals
Sixty-nine percent of people in Turkey have stated that they don’t trust the country’s judicial system, while 72 percent say people are imprisoned unjustly...
EP Turkey rapporteur says he can’t forget post-mortem photos of Kabakçıoğlu, who was found...
Nacho Sánchez Amor, an MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and EP standing rapporteur on the annual report on Turkey,...
CHP İstanbul chair faces imprisonment for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan’s communications chief
The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has submitted an indictment requesting between one year, two months and two years, four months’ imprisonment for Republican People’s...
Court orders continued detention of activist Kavala at first hearing of joint trial
An İstanbul court ruled to keep prominent businessman and rights activist Osman Kavala in jail at the start of a new trial of 52...
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