İstanbul mayor defiant as interior ministry accuses his staff of terrorist links
A defiant İstanbul mayor on Monday called on the country’s interior minister to resign in the wake of an investigation launched by the ministry...
Ministry challenges top court stay on regulation banning recordings at protests
Turkey’s Interior Ministry and Security General Directorate have challenged a recent decision by the country’s top administrative court, which ruled for a stay of...
Judicial council appoints Erdoğan’s chief advisor to Turkey’s top appeals court
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Veysel Bektaş, was among 11 new members elected by Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) to...
Independence of Turkey’s forensics council called into question as 3 more die in prison
Doubts have grown over the independence and credibility of Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, as...
Justice Ministry formed committees to identify employees with Gülen links, official document reveals
An official document shared on Twitter by a former prosecutor showed how the Turkish Justice Ministry formed committees to identify employees with links to...
Former judge with 6-month-old baby sent to prison in defiance of legal provisions
Esra Çiçeklidağ, a former judge dismissed from her job by a government decree, was arrested on November 10, 2021 in violation of a Turkish...
Official documents reveal illegal profiling of alleged Gülen movement followers
Official documents shared on Twitter by a former prosecutor showed how Ministry of Health bureaucrats profiled alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in...
Working for Gülen-linked media, doubting gov’t coup story not grounds for terror charges: ECtHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in the case of prominent journalist Nazlı Ilıcak that working for media outlets close to...
Turkish court rejects appeal seeking Kavala’s release despite CoE warning
An İstanbul court has rejected an appeal against the imprisonment of prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been behind bars on a...
Turkey has prosecuted some 1,600 lawyers, arrested 615 since failed coup: report
Turkey has prosecuted more than 1,600 attorneys and arrested 615 of them on terrorism charges since a failed coup in 2016, Turkish Minute reported,...
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