Journalist faces multiple insult charges due to social media posts
An editor at the Gerçek Gündem news website has been indicted on charges of insulting public officials in tweets that allegedly targeted two deputy...
Turkish Twitter users demand authorities release father of young boy whose mother died in...
Turkish Twitter users demanded that authorities release the father of a 5-year-old boy after his mother, Gülsüm Coşar, 31, a former judge who fled...
Turkish court gives 7,5 years to Kurdish journalist in prison on ‘terrorism’ charges
Journalist Seda Taşkın on Wednesday was sentenced to seven years, six months in prison on charges of supporting a terrorist organization and disseminating terrorist...
Turkish authorities detain 6, including former police chief, over harrowing murder of young woman
Turkish authorities on Tuesday morning detained six people, including a former police chief, in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old woman in Istanbul,...
Turkey suspends officials, guards over stabbing of political prisoners in eastern province
The Turkish Justice Ministry has suspended two deputy directors and four guards at an Elazığ prison where seven political prisoners were reportedly stabbed by...
Son of deceased former police officer says father was victim of gross negligence in...
The son of Veysel Atasoy, a former decorated police officer who died of COVID-19 last year while in prison in Kütahya province, has said...
Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy says Turkish Parliament impeding oversight through censorship
The Turkish Parliament Speaker’s Office has returned several parliamentary questions from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) dealing with human rights, prison conditions, censorship,...
Pioneering Saturday Mothers activist passes away, sparking grief among fellow campaigners
Emine Ocak, a pioneering activist with the Saturday Mothers movement who joined the first protest in Istanbul’s Galata Square on May 27, 1995 in...
INTERPOL denied Turkey’s 2014 Red Notice request for Gülen: former official
A former police chief who served for six years as head of the Turkish Police Department’s INTERPOL branch said in an interview with the...
Ankara systematically tortures supporters of Gülen movement, Kurds, Turkey Tribunal rapporteurs say: report
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, started proceedings in Geneva on Monday...
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