Veteran Turkish journalist Şahin Alpay: I was jailed for criticizing the AKP’s authoritarian drift

Turkish journalist Şahin Alpay in an interview on Friday linked his jailing after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 to his...

Solidarity statement with HDP’s jailed co-chairs: Democracy in Turkey going on trial

Ahead of the trials of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) impriosned co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and former co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ, Noam Chomsky, Clive Lewis, Peter Tatchell...

Turkish gov’t misuses ECtHR decision to justify routine strip-searches: UN rapporteur

The Turkish government misused a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision to justify routine strip-searches in prisons, a UN rapporteur revealed during a...

Turkey’s top court orders retrial in Gülen case, citing rights violations and insufficient evidence

Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has ordered a retrial for Hasan Sarıcı, who was convicted of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, citing violations of...

Turkey’s top court delivers another ruling against internet censorship

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in an access ban imposed on news websites Yüksekova Haber and Zap Haber in 2016, adding to...

Authoritarian trends consolidated, rule of law has further deteriorated in Turkey: German think tank

Authoritarian trends observed in Turkey in the last decade have been consolidated, while the rule of law has further deteriorated in the country, Turkish...

Turkish police detain 10 people during demonstrations marking terror attack

Turkish police on Friday detained 10 people who were attempting to make statements to the press at demonstrations in Ankara and İstanbul marking the third...

Turkey among low performing countries on climate change index

Turkey has again been ranked as a low performing country on climate change, in 42nd place among 64 countries, in the Climate Change Performance Index...

Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 272 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 272 people on terrorism charges due to their alleged links to the faith-based...

Students, academics protest proposed division of Turkey’s İstanbul University

İstanbul University students and academics continued a weeks-long protest on Tuesday in Beyazıt Square against a bill submitted to the Turkish Parliament to split up...
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