Turkey uses facial recognition to spy on millions: report
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has added a facial recognition system to its law enforcement arsenal that helps it investigate millions of...
Ban on contact visitation violates rights of inmates: Ankara Bar Association
A ban on contact visitation in Turkish prisons since March 14, 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions that are still in effect in prisons, despite...
Independence of Turkey’s forensics council called into question as 3 more die in prison
Doubts have grown over the independence and credibility of Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, as...
Majority of complaints at ECtHR against Turkey concern July 15 coup attempt: report
Most of the applications filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against Turkey are related to rights violations that allegedly occurred during...
Greek and Turkish hackers trade retaliatory cyberattacks
Brazen cyberattacks are straining relations between Greece and Turkey, two nations with a considerable shared past and history of tense ties, with Greek experts...
Turkey’s Deputy PM Bozdağ claims Zarrab case baseless, political
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed on Sunday the case against Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who has been charged in...
Turkish court sentences pro-Kurdish HDP’s former deputy co-chair Tuğluk to 10 years
An Ankara court on Friday sentenced Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk to 10 years in prison in a...
Doctors in Turkey discouraged from writing up reports on abuse, torture
There appears to be a systematic and deliberate campaign by the government of Turkey to dissuade doctors from writing up reports that prove abuse...
Turkey’s new judges, prosecutors give Erdoğan standing ovation at palace ceremony
New judges and prosecutors who went to the Turkish presidential palace on Monday for balloting that will determine their work assignments stood up and...
Turkey is violating international law with airstrikes in northern Syria, says Swedish politician
Morgan Johansson, a Swedish politician and spokesperson for the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraternas), says Turkey's airstrikes in northern Syria are a violation of international law,...
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