Malaysia turned over Erdoğan’s critics to Turkey where they will be tortured
Ignoring human rights organization’s plea to not turn three Turkish nationals over to Turkey where they will be subjected to torture and abuse, Malaysian...
CHP deputy chair fined 30,000 lira for calling Turkish President Erdoğan ‘fascist dictator’
A Turkish court has ordered Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)deputy chair and party spokesperson Bülent Tezcan to pay non-pecuniary damages in the...
Renowned social anthropologist released from custody under judicial supervision
Professor Nükhet Sirman, a renowned social anthropologist who was detained by Turkish police on Saturday for her academic work, was released from custody under judicial supervision...
Pro-gov’t journalist says Turkish gov’t readying for operations against other religious groups
Nevzat Çiçek, a pro-government journalist, has said Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate and state intelligence agencies are conducting significant research on religious communities in Turkey...
Turkey’s top court annuls administrative control over student demonstrations on campus
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has struck down parts of a law that stipulated disciplinary action on university students for distributing leaflets, hanging banners and organizing...
Extradition of journalist from Ukraine to Turkey reason for concern, OSCE media freedom representative...
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), on Thursday expressed great concern in...
384 prisoners denied parole in Turkey over the last 3 years
Administrative and Observation Boards, review bodies established in Turkish prisons in January 2021, have been delaying the conditional release of prisoners by three to...
ECtHR questions Azerbaijani gov’t on illegal deportation of Turkish teacher over Gülen links
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has questioned the Azerbaijani government over the illegal deportation of Turkish national Taci Şentürk at the request of...
Rights activists struggle to keep Yusuf Bilge Tunç on the agenda 5 years into...
Turkish human rights activists on Wednesday took to the social media platform X to draw attention to Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former public sector...
Turkey’s MİT abducts Veysel Akçay, general director of schools affiliated with Gülen movement, in...
Veysel Akçay, the general director of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia, was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation...
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