Rule of Law

Human rights issues, including press freedom, in Turkey must not be held hostage to geopolitical developments, and the international community must step up its...

Turkish prosecutors, part of a judiciary strongly under the influence of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have demanded 3,623 aggravated life sentences for...

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

S.Ö., whose husband was jailed a few weeks before she gave birth to a baby, was detained in Sakarya on March 8 when she...

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Aykut Erdoğdu on Sunday said Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had gathered media bosses and...

European United Left-Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament condemned Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s abuse of Interpol red notices against his critics abroadand political interference...

An outspoken Aberdeen University academic has been arrested in Turkey for posting critical commentary online about the country’s leader. Lawyer Hanifi Barış, who graduated from...

A disabled prison inmate who, according to his wife, cannot take care of his personal needs on his own was denied the opportunity for...

An outstanding arrest warrant for Burak Akbar, the proprietor of the neo-nationalist Sözcü daily, was extended by a Turkish court in İstanbul on Wednesday. Akbay faces...

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 164 suspects, including soldiers and scientists, in five separate investigations into followers...