Rights organizations call on Council of Europe to trigger infringement proceedings against Turkey

Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and Turkey Litigation Support Project have called on the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers...

Turkey’s judicial council promotes judge who defied Constitutional Court ruling

Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has promoted judge Akın Gürlek, who presided over an İstanbul court that refused to implement a Constitutional...

Sweden deeply concerned about rights violations in Turkey

Swedish government on Wednesday expressed its deep concerns on backslide of human rights, rule of law and crackdown on the opposition and media in...

Jailed journalist Şık says AKP gov’t has embraced junta regime agenda

Imprisoned Cumhuriyet daily reporter Ahmet Şık said in a hearing on Wednesday that the government has embraced the agenda of a junta regime. The trial...

Patreon closes account of exiled journalist over threat by Turkish gov’t

Patreon has blocked the account in Turkey of Kamil Maman, an exiled Turkish journalist in Canada, after the Turkish government threatened to close Patreon completely...

Turkish journalist briefly detained due to article titled ‘We can stop the dictatorship’

Turkish journalist Ali Ergin Demirhan, an editor at the critical sendika.org news website, was briefly detained on Monday due to an article on the...

Lawyers complain of Turkish authorities’ failure to effectively investigate Gabonese student’s death

Lawyers representing the family of Jeannah Dinabongho Ibouanga, a 17-year-old Gabonese student who was allegedly murdered in northwestern Turkey, said the incident was not...

Austria to ban famous Rabia sign of Turkish President Erdoğan

Austria’s Interior Minister Herbert Kickl announced that the Austrian government is planning to ban certain Turkish hand signs, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Rabia,...
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Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 98 people over alleged Gülen links

The Turkish government issued detention warrants for 98 people, including military officers on active duty, on Tuesday across the country as part of its...
Spano posing with members of Turkey's ruling party

European rights court president draws further ire by posing with members of Turkey’s ruling...

President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Róbert Ragnar Spanó drew further ire from human rights defenders and the Turkish opposition after...
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