75-year-old woman serving sentence for sending to money to inmates falls sick in prison
Hatice Yıldız, an ailing 75-year-old woman who had been sentenced to four years on charges of “financing a terrorist organization” because she sent money...
ECtHR faults Turkey for violating rights of top judicial board member dismissed in 2014
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Adem Kartal, the former vice president of the Supreme Board of...
Law firm says jailed PKK leader held incommunicado for 3 years
The Asrın Law Firm on Monday said it has been three years since it was able to contact Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of...
Boydak Holding executive convicted of Gülen links detained in İstanbul
An executive from the Kayseri-based Boydak Holding was detained in İstanbul on Tuesday to serve a sentence handed down on terrorism-related charges due to...
European rights court faults Turkey for pretrial detention of journalist following coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey over the pretrial detention of Ayşenur Parıldak, a reporter for the now-closed Zaman daily,...
Family of missing Kurdish journalist seeking justice 30 years on
The family of Nazım Babaoğlu, a journalist who went missing in 1994 while covering the news, is still seeking his whereabouts as well as...
Phone seized in fraud investigation reveals bribery involving prosecutors
A mobile phone that was confiscated as part of a fraud investigation in central Turkey has revealed messages indicative of bribery involving the suspects...
Justice remains elusive for Turkey’s peace academics 8 years on
Turkey’s Academics for Peace, a group of scholars who were fired for signing a peace petition in 2016, are still struggling to return to...
CoE to discuss possible sanctions against Turkey regarding Kavala, Demirtaş cases
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers, in its quarterly human rights meeting March 12-14, will discuss possible sanctions against Turkey over its...
Turkish prosecutors issue fake arrest warrants for fraudulent asylum applications: Swiss media
Turkish nationals have been granted asylum in Switzerland by presenting fake arrest warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors, Turkish Minute reported, citing Swiss media reports.
The scheme,...
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