Georgian court extends imprisonment of Turkish educator Mustafa Emre Çabuk for 3 months

A Tbilisi court in Georgia has extended the imprisonment of Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who is the principal of Özel Demirel Collge in the country,...

Germany’s Merkel to push EU partners to review Turkey’s accession to EU

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday that Turkey is backsliding on the rule of law and vowed to urge other EU member countries...

EU watchdog: Spending on Turkey fails to address democratic problems, press freedom

Billions of euros in financial aid to Turkey from the European Union have barely addressed key problems such as judicial independence and press freedom...

Famous Turkish singer, actress Zuhal Olcay sued over alleged insult to President Erdoğan

A lawsuit has been filed against famous Turkish singer, actress Zuhal Olcay for “insulting” Turkish autocratic Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a concert...

Exhibition in EP exposes plight of Turkish journalists behind bars on World Press Freedom...

An exhibition at the initiative of three political groups in the European Parliament to mark the World Press Freedom Day features the plight of...

Ex-military officer convicted of shipping explosives to ISIL, suspected in 2002 murder, recaptured

Former Turkish military officer Nuri Gökhan Bozkır, implicated in the 2002 murder of academic Necip Hablemitoğlu and convicted of shipping explosives to the Islamic...

Amnesty International: EU leaders must press Turkey on human rights

Iverna McGowan, director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said ahead of a European Council meeting on Oct. 19 and 20 which is expected...

Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence

A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including the one on Jesus Christ have been...

31 women killed by men, 21 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...

Thirty-one women were murdered by men in Turkey in January and 21 more died under suspicious circumstances, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on...

IOHR organizes int’l conference on unprecedented threat to human rights in Turkey

The International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) has announced that it holding an international conference on Nov. 2, 2018 in Geneva to highlight the...
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