Pro-Kurdish Ağrı Mayor Sakık removed from post by AKP govenment
Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Wednesday appointed a trustee to the Ağrı Municipality, which was run by pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) mayor Sırrı Sakık.
Sakık...
Rights groups, journalist associations in Germany to protest visit of Turkey’s Erdoğan
The German Federation of Journalists (DJV) and Amnesty International (AI) have announced they will hold a joint rally in Berlin to protest Turkish President...
OSCE: Legal charges by Turkey against Turkish Cypriot journalists should be dropped
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), expressed his concern over recent judicial...
Man imprisoned on Gülen links to spend 10 more months behind bars for making...
İsmet Özçelik, incarcerated on conviction of links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was sentenced to 10 months extra imprisonment for making prayer beads out...
Gunman gets suspended sentence for 2016 attack on journalist
A Turkish court has given a suspended jail sentence of three years to a man who attacked opposition journalist Can Dündar in front of...
Turkish courts hand down prison sentences to 41 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish courts on Wednesday handed down sentences to 41 people as part of the Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of...
Turkish court imposes travel ban on recently released CHP deputy Berberoğlu
The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court has imposed an international travel ban on Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who was recently released...
HDP calls Turkish prisons ‘torture centers,’ urges EP, EU and UN to take action
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday called on the United Nations, the European Parliament and the European Commission to "urgently" take action...
17 jailed lawyers in Turkey stage hunger strike to protest unfair court hearings
Seventeen lawyers including Selçuk Kozağaçlı, president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), have begun a hunger strike in protest of the difficulties they...
Turkey’s war on human rights: 43 rights advocates in police custody for two days
The Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch has announced on Monday that 43 human rights advocates, who were detained during their attempt to issue...
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