Turkish gov’t detains 13,604 over Gülen links in last five months

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 446 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based...

Turkey removes limitations on more than 50,000 passports

The Ministry of Interior Affairs has lifted restrictions on the passports of 51,171 people, Turkish media reported on Friday, despite claims that previous similar...

Turkey’s ATK finds 81-year-old disabled Kurdish woman fit for imprisonment

Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has issued a report that finds Makbule Özer, an 81-year-old Kurdish woman with serious disabilities and health problems,...

KRG council says no postponement of independence referendum

The Kurdistan High Council for the Referendum said on Saturday that rumors of postponing a referendum for independence to be held in northern Iraq...

Journalist, human rights activist Cengiz faces life sentence despite the lack of any evidence

Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist Orhan Kemal Cengiz is facing consecutive life sentence on coup charges along with 29 other Zaman daily...

Jailed prosecutor kept in solitary confinement with broken arms

Despite his both arms were broken, Muzaffer Bayram, a former prosecutor in Kütahya province has been held in solitary confinement in prison according to...

CoE’s Muižnieks expresses concern about Turkey’s new Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors

Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, has expressed concern about the new composition of Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and...

Stockholm University panel urges Turkey to restore the rule of law

Turkey should restore the rule of law immediately to address massive human rights violations that are unprecedented in scale and magnitude, the audience was...

Turkish gov’t sentences two Kurdish journalists to ten months in prison

A Turkish court has sentenced two Kurdish journalists to 10 months in prison for publishing a statement made by a Kurdish separatist organisation Kurdistan...

Under threat of arrest in US, Erdoğan leaves his security detail at home

Members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail who were indicted in the US for violently attacking protesters in Washington, D.C., in...
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