European journalists barred from summit with EU in Turkey
A number of European journalists were shut out of a meeting on Thursday between Turkish and EU officials, Turkish media reported.
The journalists were kept...
Woman in pretrial detention with newborn baby released on parole
Şeyma Tekin, a woman jailed pending trial who gave birth in January at a hospital in Erzurum and had to return to prison with...
Amnesty activist Webb writes letter of solidarity to jailed journalist Parıldak
Felicity Webb, an Amnesty International activist from the UK, has written a letter of solidarity to journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, who is among the dozens...
39 TRT journalists get 260 years in total on terrorism charges
The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has handed down jail sentences of varying lengths to journalists from state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) on charges...
Turkish gov’t secretly investigated family members of critical journalists
The Turkish government secretly investigated the family members of journalists critical of the government including their spouses and children, a document obtained by Nordic...
Inmates in Turkish prison deliberately deprived of water: deputy
Deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu said on web TV on Saturday that water is deliberately cut off in an...
Woman detained for helping families of jailed individuals
A woman has been detained in the Turkish capital of Ankara on accusations that she provided financial assistance to the families of people who...
MİT trucks case against ultranationalist paper dropped due to statute of limitations
An İstanbul court on Thursday dropped a case against the executives of the ultranationalist Aydınlık newspaper over stories they ran in January 2014 on...
Hate speech in Turkey against Christians on the rise
Christians in Turkey are worried about the increasing hate speech against their communities in the country, the Diken news website reported on Thursday, citing...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: Police file report despite denial of knowledge of abducted men
A Turkish journalist living in exile has discovered that the Ankara Police Department filed a report on the abduction of two men earlier this...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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