Turkey detains pro-Kurdish party officials, renowned rights activist
Turkish police on Friday detained dozens of pro-Kurdish party officials and a renowned human rights activist, as prosecutors increase the pressure on the country’s...
1.5 million euros awarded to plaintiffs from Turkey by rights court in 2020
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Turkey to pay a total of 1,548,027 euros in awards to plaintiffs in 2020 after...
Mass detentions of Gülen movement followers since 2014 ‘politically motivated’: report
A report recently released by a Brussels-based human rights monitor has pointed to the political motivation behind a mass detention campaign that has systematically...
Critics blacklisted and threatened by Turkish government supporters on Clubhouse
Many people who criticize the Turkish government on the new social media platform Clubhouse are being blacklisted and threatened by pro-government accounts, the Bold...
Turkish gov’t detains health union chair and members over alleged terror links
Turkish police in the early hours of Tuesday detained the co-chair and members of the Health and Social Service Employees Union (SES) over alleged...
ECtHR poses questions to Turkish gov’t on processing of raw ByLock data
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has posed a series of questions to the Turkish government concerning the processing of raw data from...
Questions linger over Turkey’s arrest of man behind ByLock
Turkish state media reported Wednesday that a Turkish-American holding the copyright to ByLock, an encrypted messaging app banned by Turkey, was arrested in June...
Turkey orders hundreds of detentions over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 279 people in the last five days due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to...
COVID-19 restrictions lead to rights violations in Turkish prisons, bar association and medical chamber...
COVID-19 restrictions that are still in effect in Turkish prisons, despite their elimination elsewhere, lead to serious rights violations, the chairpersons of the İstanbul...
ECtHR condemns Turkey over post-coup arrests of judges and prosecutors
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had acted unlawfully by arresting more than 400 judges and prosecutors after...
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