PACE report: Situation of lawyers in Turkey causes grave concerns
"The situation of lawyers in Turkey following the failed coup d’état of July 2016 and that of lawyers representing Kurdish clients, or otherwise associated...
Turkish court arrests 6 people in food poisoning probe in Manisa’s military barracks
A Turkish court on Wednesday arrested six employees of a catering firm, including the firm’s CEO and its local manager, over a suspected food...
Turkish gov’t to try two journalists with demand of 45 years in prison for...
A Turkish court in Hatay province has accepted the indictment for journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman from now-closed Dicle news agency (Dihaber) on...
Former MHP deputy: Erdoğan had prior information on coup date
Former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and currently independent Gaziantep deputy Ümit Özdağ said on Monday that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan knew the date of...
501 detained, 63 arrested in anti-Gülen operations in one week
A total of 501 people were detained, with 63 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past...
Amnesty says court ruling for release of jailed MP ‘long overdue’
Prominent human rights organization Amnesty International has welcomed a decision from Turkey’s Constitutional Court concerning the violation of rights of a jailed lawmaker but...
Journalist Gültekin faces 56-month sentence on charges of insulting Turkey’s Erdoğan
An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of four years, eight months for journalist Levent Gültekin, an outspoken government critic...
Turkish consulate in Geneva refuses to renew journalist Nesin’s passport
Journalist Ahmet Nesin has been denied service at the Turkish consulate in Geneva, in the latest of similar refusals targeting the government critics abroad.
Columnist...
Rights court fines Turkey over lifting parliamentary immunity of pro-Kurdish MP
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has fined Turkey for violating the freedom of expression of Filiz Kerestecioğlu, a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...
Jailed human rights defender Erkem’s gastric bleeding ignored by Turkish prison doctors
Nalan Erkem, who was among the rights defenders who were jailed after being detained in Büyükada, reportedly exprerienced a gastric bleeding in prison and...
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