Purge victim accountant reinstated to job one year after death
Mustafa Nacaroğlu, an accountant who was fired from his job by a government decree in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey...
3 arrested out of 11 more people detained as part of ongoing witch-hunt in...
Three people were arrested on Monday out of 11 suspects detained in Kahramanmaraş province as part of an investigation into the faith-based civic Gülen...
Turkish gov’t critic arrested shortly after his release
A Turkish court on Saturday morning ordered the rearrest of Alparslan Kuytul, chairman of a religious foundation in Turkey, after the prosecutor appealed a...
Court releases Leyla Güven, Kurdish deputy on hunger strike, from prison
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Güven, who has been on a hunger strike for 79 days, was released from jail on Friday by...
Human rights defender professor forced to retire due to prison sentence
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor of forensics, retired from her position at...
Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine: Jailed elderly woman faking severity of illness
A medical report prepared by Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) for Sisê Bingöl, an elderly and ailing woman who is serving time on...
Lawyer for defendants in MİT arms transportation case gets 7.5 years in prison
The lawyer who represented defendants in a case that exposed Turkish intelligence agency trucks carrying arms to Syria in 2014 was handed down a...
State of emergency victims in Turkey earn less than $150 a month: report
A report released by the Society of Justice for Victims has revealed that the average monthly income of some one and a half million...
Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize-winning Turkish judge sentenced to 10 years
Murat Aslan, president of the now-dissolved Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV), was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday on trumped-up charges of...
Former coup plot judge given 12 years in prison on terrorism charges
Ali Efendi Peksak, a former judge who was on the panel hearing the 2003 Sledgehammer (Balyoz) coup plot trial, has been handed down a...
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