Two of eight detained lawyers still under police custody in Turkey
Eight lawyers, including two lawyers representing educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for over 138 days, were detained...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court denied release request of sick academic who died of COVID-19 in...
The Turkish Constitutional Court on May 11, 2020 had denied a request for the release of sick academic Halil Şimşek, who died in western Çanakkale Prison...
Jailed human rights defender Erkem’s gastric bleeding ignored by Turkish prison doctors
Nalan Erkem, who was among the rights defenders who were jailed after being detained in Büyükada, reportedly exprerienced a gastric bleeding in prison and...
Top court to review rights defender, former MP Gergerlioğlu’s application on July 1
Turkey’s Constitutional Court will review an application submitted by rights defender and former MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu,...
Funeral attacker takes photo with Turkish interior minister at police station
Murat Alp, a participant in a racist attack on the funeral of Hatun Tuğluk, mother of jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aysel Tuğluk,...
Top court rules on ‘overly broad’ law on criminal organization membership
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has issued a "pilot judgment" about a provision of the Turkish Penal Code prescribing the penalty for offenses committed “on behalf...
Turkish gov’t detains 998 people in a week, issues detention warrants for 118 on...
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 998 people have been detained in one week over the alleged links to the Gülen movement...
Right to fair trial most frequently violated right in Turkey: top court
The right to a fair trial is the most frequently violated right in Turkey according to statistics announced by the Constitutional Court on its website...
Evrensel editor Sarı gets 11 months in jail for allegedly ‘insulting’ Turkish President
Çağrı Sarı, the managing editor of leftist daily Evrensel has been given 11 months 20 days prison sentence for allegedly insulting Turkish autocratic President...
Turkey’s top court finds no rights violation in case of dismissed public servants Gülmen...
The Turkish Constitutional Court found no rights violations in the case of academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, both of whom were fired...
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