Jailed businessman Kavala seeks justice ministry’s intervention for a retrial
After an İstanbul court rejected jailed businessman Osman Kavala’s third request for a retrial earlier this week, one of his lawyers petitioned the justice ministry, asking...
Turkey’s 768 senior public servants, families claimed asylum in Germany
Germany’s immigration office has received asylum applications from 260 Turkish diplomatic passport holders and 508 “service passport” holders since the failed coup attempt on...
HDP continues nationwide protest in İstanbul park
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Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies gathered at a park in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district as part of a series of protests that will continue...
CCBE: Independence, integrity and freedom of expression of the legal profession at stake in...
Brussels based Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) expressed “serious concerns over the recent repressions by the Turkish authorities on the...
Pro-Erdoğan daily on jailed pastor Brunson: ‘CIA pastor’ engineered coup attempt in Turkey
The pro-Erdoğan Takvim daily on Saturday accused jailed American pastor Andrew Brunson, whose release US President Donald Trump sought from Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
IPI – MLSA study: Turkish journalists convicted for their work
According to a trial monitoring study conducted in Turkey by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and the International Press Institute (IPI), journalistic...
Basel police officer from Turkish origin arrested for spying for Erdoğan
Swiss police has arrested a Basel-based traffic police on suspicion of spying for Turkish officials, reported by Basler Zeitung newspaper on Friday. According to the...
Former Turkish judge Okur: Erdoğan called me and said, ‘They will get my son,...
İbrahim Okur, former head of the First Chamber of Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), said then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Court in eastern Turkey convicts members of family mistreated by police during house raid
A court in eastern Turkey has sentenced to prison two women from a family that suffered mistreatment at the hands of police officers in...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 323 people over links to Gülen movement on...
Detention warrants have been issued by Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office for 142 people who used to work or still work for Turkish Education Ministry...
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