Turkey’s OHAL commission makes first decisions on dismissed public sector staff
Turkey’s State of Emergency (OHAL) Procedures Investigation Commission made its first decisions on Friday on public sector staff who were dismissed by the government...
Turkish gov’t misuses ECtHR decision to justify routine strip-searches: UN rapporteur
The Turkish government misused a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision to justify routine strip-searches in prisons, a UN rapporteur revealed during a...
Post-coup purge victim says he may never be a father due to torture in...
A man jailed over alleged links to a failed coup in Turkey last July said during a recent hearing in Kırıkkale that he may...
Wife of Turkish teacher fired and jailed over alleged Gülen links dies of cancer
Nevin Dağ, whose husband is currently being held in Gaziantep Prison, died of cancer on Wednesday, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a prominent human...
UPDATE: Controversial Turkish social media law goes into effect
A law on Internet crimes – the so-called social media law – approved by the Turkish parliament on Wednesday, went into effect after it...
Turkish court releases journalist Uğur Sağındık but rules for house arrest
A Turkish court on Wednesday decided to release journalist Uğur Sağındık, an editor for now-closed Zaman daily, from pretrial detention but ruled that he be...
CHP report reveals the stigmata of degeneracy among Turkish society
A report released by Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy revealed that the disintegration of the society’s common value system undermines the...
Reuters research says 60 percent of Turks don’t trust mainstream media
Sixty percent of Turkish people do not trust the news published in the mainstream media, according to a Digital News Report published by the...
Turkish prosecutor requests 7-year sentence for Kurdish university student over whistling Kurdish song
A group of students at Dicle University in Diyarbakır province has been facing possible sentences ranging from over 7 years to 28 years on...
Jailed HR activists say translators giving inaccurate info about Büyükada meeting
A group of human rights defenders, who have been in jail since July 5, have said translators who attended a meeting on İstanbul’s Büyükada...
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