Seven pro-Kurdish people, including Co-mayors of Doğubayazıt Municipality, arrested
Seven people including Kurdish Co-mayors of Doğubayazıt district of Turkey’s eastern province of Ağrı were arrested on Saturday.
Seven people, including Doğubayazıt Co-mayors Murat Rohat...
Turkish gov’t detains 26 people fleeing to Greece to escape post-coup witch hunt
Twenty-six people were detained in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were reportedly fleeing to Greece to escapte the Turkish government’s post-coup witch-hunt...
US: Turkey regularly invoked terrorism law to criminalize exercise of human rights in 2019
In its “Country Reports on Terrorism 2019” released yesterday, the US State Department said Turkey has a broad definition of terrorism and that the...
Captain says army chief was leader of July 15 coup council
A captain who is standing trial on coup charges in the southeastern province of Gaziantep has said one of his commanders told him on...
Erdoğan: We do not recognize Venice Commission reports
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday that Turkey would not recognize reports of the Venice Commission, an advisory body of constitutional...
Coronavirus pandemic fuels hate speech in Turkey
The coronavirus pandemic has fueled hate and xenophobic speech in the predominantly pro-government Turkish media, which accuses the usually targeted groups and countries including...
Human rights defender professor forced to retire due to prison sentence
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor of forensics, retired from her position at...
Turkey again fires academic who signed peace petition
An appeals court in Turkey has ruled to remove from her job Mühdan Sağlam, an academic who was recently reinstated after initially being fired...
PACE co-rapporteurs call on Turkey to implement ECtHR rulings following visit to Kavala in...
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have called on Turkey to implement European...
Erdoğan again sues Turkey’s main apposition leader over alleged ‘insult’
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sued Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for allegedly “insulting the presidential office”...
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