EU Commission: Turkey’s membership hopes at an all-time low
Turkey will receive the most damning evaluation yet of its European Union accession hopes, more than a decade after it launched its bid to...
Doğan sells book store chain D&R to pro-gov’t Turkuvaz Group
Doğan Holding has sold Turkey’s largest bookstore chain, D&R, to the Turkuvaz Media Group, which is known to be close to Turkey’s ruling Justice...
Turkish police detain 3 ETHA journalists in İstanbul
Etkin News Agency (ETHA) editor Semiha Şahin and reporters Pınar Gayıp and Adil Demirci were reportedly detained by İstanbul police during raids on their...
Turkish court sentences jailed journalist Soncan without allowing him access to evidence
A Turkish court on April 10 handed down a prison sentence of seven-and-a-half years on terror charges to journalist Emre Soncan (36), who is...
Turkey’s main opposition party takes sale of Doğan media to Competition Authority
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has filed a complaint with the Competition Authority regarding the recent sale of the Doğan Media Group...
Turkish court arrests 4 more journalists from pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi
A Turkish court on Wednesday ruled to arrest four journalists from the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, which was seized by the Turkish government and...
Turkish court sentences jailed journalist Soncan to 7,5 years in prison on ‘terror’ charges
Journalist Emre Soncan, who is among dozens of journalists jailed in the aftermath of a controversial military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15,...
Jailed Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal: My scream for justice has faded away in a...
Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, has urged the judges in his trial to...
Jailed journalist Ilıcak appears in Turkish court on espionage charges
Renowned journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 and given an aggravated...
Turkey overwhelmingly leads world in Twitter censorship
The Turkish government is continuing its efforts to censor Twitter, according to the site’s new transparency report, which shows that 466 of 513 total...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
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.
In recent years...