Turkish minister of interior reveals details of crackdown on migrant smuggling
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on social media that 80 migrant smugglers and 2,155 irregular migrants have been detained by Turkish police, Deutsche...
İstanbul mayor defiant as interior ministry accuses his staff of terrorist links
A defiant İstanbul mayor on Monday called on the country’s interior minister to resign in the wake of an investigation launched by the ministry...
European Commission warns Greece over mistreatment of asylum seekers: report
The European Commission has released a written statement expressing concern over allegations of violence and pushback against asylum seekers who cross the Evros River,...
Turkish court orders main opposition leader to pay damages to controversial prosecutor
A Turkish court has ordered Özgür Özel, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), to pay non-pecuniary damages to İstanbul Chief Public...
Prosecutor asks to keep Kurdish politician in jail despite eligibility for release
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded the continued pretrial detention of Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish politician and the former co-mayor of Diyarbakır who has been...
Turkey’s spying activities in Germany increased in 2021
The number of investigations launched by German authorities into the activities of foreign intelligence services in the country, particularly Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT),...
Veteran reporter sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison
Haşim Söylemez, a Turkish investigative journalist who was working for the now-closed Aksiyon magazine, was sentenced to six years, three months in prison by...
64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and...
Turkey detains 19 people on alleged Gülen links
Police in western Turkey have detained 19 people for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by the government of “terrorist...
Most applicants sought right to a fair trial at top court in 2021, chief...
More than 73 percent of the people who applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court in 2021 claiming they had been subjected to rights violations sought...
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