PACE concerned over lack of domestic remedy for purge victims in Turkey
Two rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed concern at the apparent lack of an effective domestic...
Pro-Kurdish party leader says intervention in Turkey’s main opposition threatens all politics
Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, said Tuesday that a court ruling targeting the...
Turkish police detain expelled rights advocate MP Gergerlioğlu
Turkish police on Friday detained a politician from a pro-Kurdish party two weeks after his expulsion from parliament over terror charges linked to a...
Swedish journalist appears in Turkish court for second hearing on terrorism charge
A Turkish court on Thursday held the second hearing in the case against Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who is standing trial on a charge...
Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen spies over Erdoğan opponents in Denmark
An adviser at the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen has confirmed that it collected information on alleged supporters of the Gülen movement, a faith-based social...
French national tortured by fellow inmates in Turkish prison due to sexual orientation
Fabien Azoulay, a gay and Jewish French national who is serving 16 years, eight months in a Turkish prison for buying drugs online, was...
Prosecutors order detention of 12 ex-soldiers on Gülen links
Ankara prosecutors have ordered the detention of 12 people previously expelled from the military as well as one civilian due to their alleged links...
German intelligence agency considers investigating Turkey’s DİTİB for illegal activities
Germany’s domestic security agency has turned its attention to the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), one of Germany’s largest pro-Erdoğan Islamist organizations, after...
18 women appear in court for participating in demonstration against withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Eighteen women had their first court hearing today in Turkey's Izmir province for participating in an August 2020 demonstration against government plans to withdraw...
Turkish court gives suspended sentence to journalist over report on judicial corruption
A Turkish court on Thursday handed down a five-month suspended sentence to journalist Tolga Şardan for publicly insulting the state’s judicial organs in an...
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