Jailed religious leader’s daughters face prosecution for marching to support him

Two daughters aged 15 and 16 of jailed anti-government Islamist leader Alpaslan Kuytul have been summoned by an Adana court over their participation in...

Secret documents expose large-scale spying on critics by Turkish embassies

Secret Turkish Foreign Ministry documents obtained by Nordic Monitor reveal that Turkish embassies and consulates have become tools of spying and profiling and confirm that...

US report highlights violations of religious freedom in Turkey

The International Religious Freedom Report 2018 released by the US State Department on Friday addresses gross violations of religious freedom in Turkey.   The annual report...

ECtHR failed in response to post-coup cases in Turkey: report

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Wednesday published a report highlighting the collapse of the rule of law and human rights in Turkey as...

Turkish opposition leader briefly denied passport over ‘terrorism links’

Temel Karamollaoğlu, the leader of the Turkish opposition Islamist Felicity Party (SP), has said that his request for a new passport was rejected by...

European rights court fines Moldova for expelling Turkish teachers

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has imposed a fine on Moldova over the expulsion of teachers at the request of the Turkish...
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European Court of Human Rights questions Turkey on judges, prosecutors under arrest

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has addressed a series of questions to the Turkish government due to applications lodged by former judges...

1 in 4 adults in Turkey subjects of prosecution in 2018

Over 13 million Turkish citizens, roughly 25 percent of the entire adult population, were the subjects of prosecution in 2018, amounting to an increase...

Supreme appeals court member sentenced for lending money to a colleague 

Former member of Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals Süleyman Pehlivan, who was sentenced to thirteen-and-a-half years on terrorism charges, has been confined to a...
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Turkey unseats nine pro-Kurdish councilors

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has removed nine city council members from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the Tatvan district of eastern Bitlis province, the...
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