UN warns Albania over return of critics to Turkey, citing risks of torture, enforced...
The UN Human Rights Council sent an urgent communication to the Albanian government requesting the current whereabouts of Selami Şimşek and urging that it...
Swiss prosecutors investigate Turkish couple who informed on dissidents
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Prosecution (Le Parquet Fédéral) has launched an investigation into a couple who informed on dissidents living in Switzerland to Turkish...
14 Kurdish politicians, activists referred to court for arrest in Diyarbakır
Of the 18 Kurdish politicians and activists detained in a police operation in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır on Friday, 14 of them...
35-day advertising ban imposed on Cumhuriyet over report on Erdoğan aide
Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, has imposed a 35-day advertising ban on...
Inmate dies from COVID-19 at İstanbul’s Silivri Prison: statement
The İstanbul Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday announced the death of an inmate at Silivri Prison from COVID-19, adding that the number...
Turkey’s top court rejects 96 percent of all individual applications, statistics show
The Turkish Constitutional Court rejected 96 percent of the 266,466 individual applications made in the last eight years. In only 8,659 of these petitions...
Turkish police use disproportionate force to disperse HDP press briefing, detain 12
Turkish police on Wednesday forcefully intervened in a press briefing held by the Kurdish-oriented Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and detained 12 people, the Gazete...
Turkey confiscated or froze $32 billion in assets belonging to gov’t critics
Turkish authorities have confiscated or frozen $32 billion worth of assets, according to the Brussels-based human rights group Platform for Peace and Justice (PPJ)...
TBB, 80 Turkish bar associations oppose gov’t plan to amend law on lawyers
The Turkish Bar Association (TBB) and 80 bar associations across the country have released a joint statement calling for an end to the government’s...
Dismissed Kurdish mayors, politicians in Turkey conditionally released
Ten local politicians and mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) removed from office on May 15 by Turkey’s Interior Ministry, have been...
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