ECtHR condemns Turkey over Amnesty activist’s ‘unlawful’ detention

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned Turkey over the arrest in 2017 of the head of the Turkish branch of rights...

Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...

Download PDF This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...

ECtHR Grand Chamber to examine case concerning Gülen movement trial in Turkey

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will examine the case of former teacher Yüksel Yalçınkaya, who was first dismissed...

Turkey sentences Erdoğan critic Kavala to life in jail

A Turkish court Monday sentenced leading intellectual and rights campaigner Osman Kavala to life in jail on highly controversial coup plot charges that had...

Turkey’s jailed rights defender makes final appeal before verdict

One of Turkey’s most famous prisoners appeared in court Friday for what could be his final hearing in a case that has come to...
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HDP submits its written defense to top court in closure case

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which faces a closure case, has submitted its written defense to the Constitutional Court, which the party said...

CoE Commissioner Mijatović publishes comments on infringement proceedings before ECtHR in Kavala case

Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović on Thursday published her comments on the infringement proceedings before the European Court of...

Handing case of Khashoggi murder to Saudi Arabia reveals deterioration of rule of law...

In a statement issued on Friday, the Washington, D.C.-based Freedom House said Turkey’s decision to hand the case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder to...

Ankara court rules in favor of former public servant dismissed for donating to Gülen-affiliated...

The Ankara 19th Administrative Court has ruled in favor of a former civil servant who was dismissed by a government decree for donating money...

Turkey’s top court finds no rights violation in cases of 2 dismissed mayors

The Turkish Constitutional Court has found no violation of rights in the cases of two former mayors from pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır...
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