Erdoğan says doesn’t care if capital punishment torpedoes EU membership
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that he does not care if reinstating the death penalty ends Turkey’s integration with the...
An İstanbul court decides to release 21 jailed journalists
An İstanbul court, on Friday, has decided to release 21 out of 29 journalists who have been standing trial for last 5 days over...
European Parliament resolution underscores lack of domestic legal remedies in Turkey
Forty-seven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 14 press freedom and free expression organizations led by the International Press Institute (IPI) and Green...
Veteran Turkish teacher has to work as small farmer after dismissed by Turkey’s gov’t
An unidentified Turkish teacher with 35.5 years of experience in education, according to his own telling, has had to make a living as a...
Hundreds gather at ECtHR to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Hundreds of activists and victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown, joined by former leader of the UK’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and EU parliamentarians, gathered...
Erdoğan’s henchmen call on Turkish gov’t to seize assets of all Gülen movement followers...
Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, staunch supporters of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the government to seize all assets of...
Turkey tops the list for number of European Court of Human Rights judgments finding...
Turkey tops the list of 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member states that received the most judgments from the European Court of Human Rights...
Detained teacher severely tortured, his wife harrassed by Turkish police
Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Bartın teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the...
Turkish gov’t detains 32 active-duty military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government has detained 32 active-duty military personnel across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the...
Turkish gov’t detains, jails dozens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Dozens of people were detained by Turkish government on Friday over their alleged links to the Gülen movement across Turkey as part of its...
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