Turkey issued detention warrants for 92 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 92 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group...
Ankara court reinstates dismissed ‘Peace Academic,’ orders compensation for damages sustained
The Ankara 21st Administrative Court has announced its decision to reinstate academic Mine Gencel Bek, who was dismissed from her job by an emergency...
Erdoğan reiterates plan for anti-LGBT constitutional amendment
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday that his government was working on drafting an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment to enshrine the family that...
Turkey intensifies crackdown on Gülen movement, orders detention of 73 in 2 days
Prosecutors have intensified Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement following the announcement of a new cabinet by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday and...
Widespread imprisonment of individuals with alleged Gülen links may constitute crimes against humanity: UN...
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has concluded that the arrest and detention of an individual with alleged ties to the...
PACE committee urges action against transnational repression, reveals Turkey’s tactics
Unanimously adopting a draft resolution on May 23 based on a report by Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s...
Turkish social media users call on authorities to release woman jailed with her baby
Turkish Twitter users are calling on authorities to release Şadinaz Yaşa Yılmaz, the mother of a 10-month-old infant, the Bold Medya news website reported.
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Deputy speaker of Turkish parliament calls for closure of top court over failure to...
Celal Adan, deputy speaker of the Turkish parliament, has called for the closure of Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) due to its failure so far...
Turkey often fails to implement ECtHR decisions on freedoms of expression and press: report
An annual report by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers on its supervision of the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)’s...
Pro-Kurdish party declines to present oral defense to top court in act of protest
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the subject of a closure case, has decided not to present an oral defense at the Constitutional Court...
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