PACE rejects Turkey’s candidate list for post of judge at ECtHR
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has rejected a three-person list Turkey has submitted for the post of judge at the...
Jailed religious leader’s daughters face prosecution for marching to support him
Two daughters aged 15 and 16 of jailed anti-government Islamist leader Alpaslan Kuytul have been summoned by an Adana court over their participation in...
Orhan Pamuk says so many innocent people in Turkish prisons
Nobel laureate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has said Turkey has imprisoned so many innocent people in arbitrary ways very recently, leading him to feel...
Turkish cartoonist given one-year jail sentence due to drawing featuring Moses
Cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır, has been handed down a jail sentence of one year,...
Kavala, Demirtaş’s continued imprisonment makes mockery of Erdogan’s rights plan: Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s (AI) Europe Director Nils Muižnieks has said Turkey’s failure to release Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş from jail...
Turkish Defence Minister Akar: 15,153 military officers including 150 generals and admirals dismissed over...
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced on Saturday that 15,153 military officers, including 150 generals and admirals, have been dismissed from the Turkish military...
Erdoğan orders shutdown of university linked to political rival: report
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered the closure of a university in İstanbul linked to a rival and former prime minister, according to...
UN expert Melzer says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations in Turkey
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has expressed serious concerns about the rising allegations of torture and other ill treatment in Turkish police...
European Parliament will not observe Turkish snap elections
The European Parliament (EP) announced on Wednesday they would not send a delegation to observe Turkey’s snap elections on June 24.
”The European Parliament will...
Turkish police detains 12 people including DBP provincial co-chair in Van
Turkish police forces raided the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions' Party (DBP) office and some houses in Turkey’s eastern province of Van on Thursday morning and...
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