Number of Turkish nationals granted protection status in Europe up by 300 pct

The number of Turkish nationals granted protection status by European Union countries increased by 300 percent between 2016 and 2017, proving that European asylum...

CoE to meet with Turkey’s state of emergency investigation commission this month

Officials from the Council of Europe (CoE) will meet with members of Turkey’s State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission), established following a controversial coup...

Turkish court arrests woman with 10-month-old baby on coup charges

Nazlı Mert, a Turkish woman with a 10-month old baby, has been put behind bars over alleged links to the Gülen movement. Mert was initially detained...

Turkish gov’t aims to bring researchers back home after dismissing thousands of them

A program to bring Turkish researchers back home will be launched on Dec. 15, said Mustafa Varank, Turkey’s Technology and Industry Minister on Wednesday,...

260,144 people jailed in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons

According to recent data released by Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül, 260,144 people are jailed in the country’s 385 overcrowded prisons, with 57,710 inmates...

Lawyer for defendants in MİT arms transportation case gets 7.5 years in prison

The lawyer who represented defendants in a case that exposed Turkish intelligence agency trucks carrying arms to Syria in 2014 was handed down a...

German Bar Association: No rule of law in Turkey anymore

The head of the German Bar Association (DAV), Ulrich Schellenberg, said the rule of law no longer exists in Turkey, warning German lawyers about...

US 2018 human rights report: Restrictions on fundamental freedoms continued in Turkey

A country report by the US State Department released on Wednesday stated that despite the official end of a two-year-long state of emergency in...

4 of 6 men abducted six months ago now in police custody, 2 remain...

The family members of four men who were reportedly abducted by Turkish intelligence in February confirmed yesterday that their relatives were in custody at...

Families: Women detained over alleged Gülen links subjected to maltreatment under Turkish police custody

The families of women detained in operations ordered by provincial Chief of Police Cengiz Zeybek and Governor Ersin Yazıcı between March 26-29 in a...
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