Kurdish prisoners in Turkey complain of restrictions on their language, culture

A prison administration in Ankara has refused to deliver Kurdish-language books sent to inmates and forbidden them from singing in Kurdish and performing folk...

Erdoğan says Turkey not bound by European court’s ruling to release Demirtaş

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday said that Turkey is not bound by verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) following the...

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...

Jailed HR activist Kavala: Thousands await indictments under detention in Turkey

Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and activist who has been held in pretrial detention since November 2017, has written an open letter from İstanbul’s Silivri Prison...

Turkish trustee-mayor insists on keeping toilet over Armenian graves

A Turkish government-appointed trustee of Van’s Edremit Municipality has told that the toilet which was claimed to be built in an Armenian cemetery and...

Daughter of abducted former bureaucrat petitions ECtHR for missing father

Nursena Küçüközyiğit, the daughter of a former Turkish bureaucrat who has been missing since late last year, has filed an application at the European...

Turkey’s top court annuls controversial law punishing ‘crimes committed on behalf of an organization’

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled Article 220 § 6 of the Turkish Penal Code, a controversial law that punished individuals for committing crimes on...

Two-thirds of US Senate pushes Turkish gov’t to release American pastor

Sixty-six US senators signed a letter released on Friday urging Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to free an American pastor on trial in Turkey...

Turkish university student commits suicide as father in jail for months over alleged links...

Ali Furkan Yabaneri, a 24-year-old electrical engineering student at İstanbul’s prestigious Koç University, died of an overdose months after his father was jailed as part...

Head of İstanbul Bar Association: No rule of law in Turkey

Chairman of the İstanbul Bar Association Mehmet Durakoğlu has warned against the threat of political favoritism in the judiciary and said there is no...
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