Ailing 85-year-old inmate freed following years of appeals by rights advocates
Halil Karakoç, an 85-year-old retired imam imprisoned over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was released from Menemen Prison on Thursday after spending...
20 detained in probe targeting opposition-run district municipality in İstanbul
Twenty people including municipal officials and contractors have been detained as part of a corruption investigation targeting İstanbul’s Üsküdar Municipality, run by the main...
Turkish student combat pilot, top in his class and awarded by the US Air...
Turkey jailed one of its the best and brightest lieutenants who was on his way to becoming a top-gun combat pilot after receiving multiple...
Clooney foundation among rights groups intervening in new Kavala case at ECtHR
The Clooney Foundation for Justice, co-founded by American actor George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife, Amal, is among a number of rights organizations...
Bosnian authorities reject Turkey’s request to extradite journalist due to lack of legal grounds
The Justice Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has put an end to Turkey’s persistent efforts to have a journalist living exile extradited to...
Journalist’s arrest under controversial disinformation law draws widespread condemnation
The arrest of a veteran investigative journalist under a controversial law criminalizing disinformation following his report on alleged corruption in the Turkish judiciary, which was based...
First instance asylum recognition rate of Turks dropped to lowest level in 5 years:...
The first instance asylum recognition rate in September for Turkish applicants in European countries dropped to its lowest level in five years, according to...
Turkey blocks access to jailed İstanbul mayor’s X account
Turkish authorities on Thursday blocked access to the social media account of İstanbul’s jailed opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has nearly 10 million followers...
Turkish prisons at 40 percent overcapacity: report
Turkey’s prison population has reached 428,267, exceeding official capacity by 40 percent, according to a recent report of the Civil Society in the Penal System...
Veteran correspondent from state-run TRT detained in Turkey
A correspondent from public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) who was suspended from her job in April has been detained in Ankara,...
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