TGC calls on Turkish gov’t to release jailed journalists before elections
The state of emergency “should be lifted” and imprisoned journalists should be released ahead of upcoming elections on June 24, the Turkish Journalists Association...
Turkish government’s persecution targeting dissident academics goes on with sham trials
Turkish government's systematic persecution campaign targeting dissident academicians has went on through sham trials on the courts instructed and controlled by government across Turkey.
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JWF report shows tremendous increase in number of asylum seekers from Turkey
A new report released by the New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) shows a tremendous increase in the number of asylum seekers from Turkey and urges...
Seven lawyers among 15 detained in Ankara over Gülen links
Prosecutors in the Turkish capital of Ankara issued detention warrants on Tuesday for 36 people in two separate investigations, leading to the detention of...
Rights defenders’ report says there is no ‘court’ left in Turkey
A platform established by rights defenders of victims of a massive purge that has been ongoing in Turkey since a controversil coup attempt on...
Top court finds rights violation in terror conviction of association member
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the conviction of a man on terrorism charges over the alleged links of an association he’s a member...
Turkish expat from Germany detained in Turkey on insult charges
A Turkish expatriate living in Germany who travelled to his hometown of Afyonkarahisar in Turkey for a vacation has been detained in the province...
Turkey often fails to implement ECtHR decisions on freedoms of expression and press: report
An annual report by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers on its supervision of the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)’s...
Turkish prison administration restricts HDP candidate Demirtaş’s access to newspapers
The administration of Edirne Prison initially refused to give jailed politician and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş a newspaper in which...
Erdoğan fans burn French flag, attack Norwegian journalist mistaking for ‘Dutch’
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A group of protesters in the Black Sea province of Samsun have burned a French flag as they mistook it for the Dutch flag...
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