668 babies to welcome Eid al-Adha in Turkish prisons
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Six hundred sixty-eight children under the age of 6 will welcome the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayramı) on Friday in jails across...
Families: Women detained over alleged Gülen links subjected to maltreatment under Turkish police custody
The families of women detained in operations ordered by provincial Chief of Police Cengiz Zeybek and Governor Ersin Yazıcı between March 26-29 in a...
Turkey’s ATK finds 81-year-old disabled Kurdish woman fit for imprisonment
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has issued a report that finds Makbule Özer, an 81-year-old Kurdish woman with serious disabilities and health problems,...
Yalçınkaya ruling points to systemic problems in Turkey: former ECtHR judge
Ireneusz Kamiński, a Polish professor of law and former judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said in an interview that last...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t media reports Kaçmaz family abducted by Pakistani authorities
The controversy persists over the abduction of Mesut Kaçmaz, the director of Pak-Turk School, and his family members in Pakistan and their illegal deportation...
Turkish court gives prison sentences to journalists, media workers in Feza Gazetecilik trial
An İstanbul court during the fourth hearing on Monday handed down verdicts to 20 Turkish journalists and media employees in a trial concerning Feza...
US mission to OSCE calls on Turkish gov’t to end state of emergency
The US mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called on Turkish government to bring an end to an...
Kosovo grants asylum to Turkish educator who escaped MİT abduction attempt
Uğur Toksoy, a Turkish national allegedly affiliated with the Gülen movement, was granted asylum in Kosovo after escaping an attempted abduction by Turkey's National...
EP’s rapporteur for Turkey: European Commission failed to send clear message to Erdoğan
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Turkey, on Tuesday criticised the European Commission for not sending a clear message to President Recep Tayyip...
ECtHR finds Turkey violated lawyer Demir’s rights to access information in prison
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday fined Turkey over the local prison administration’s refusal to grant a request for access to...
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