Serious backsliding in democracy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms continues in Turkey: EU
Serious backsliding in the respect for democratic standards, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms continued in the absence of an effective checks and...
NGO compiles ECtHR judgments against Turkey in new report
Justice Square, a human rights group based in the Netherlands, has released a new report bringing together European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments...
4 MEPs call for urgent release of university students arrested over Boğaziçi protests
Four members of the European Parliament have demanded that two students from İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University arrested for participating in protests be released immediately, according...
Zaman employee says in Turkish court facing life sentence due to a TV commercial
Yakup Şimşek (53), the brand marketing manager of now-closed Zaman daily, one-time best-selling newspaper in Turkey, has said he is facing a life sentence...
Closed DİHA’s journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır
Zekeriya Güzüpek, the chairman of the now-closed Dicle news agency (DİHA), a pro-Kurdish news agency and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA's...
Turkish PM Yıldırım says the government to extend emergency rule
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced on Friday that Turkish government is planning to extend the state of emergency on July 18 after...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 137 more people over ByLock app use
Detention warrants were issued for 102 people in İstanbul, İzmir and Muğla provinces on Tuesday on accusations that they use a smart phone application...
Turkish officials remove Arabic signs in İstanbul district densely populated by Syrian refugees
Officials from the Esenyurt Municipality in İstanbul on Friday removed signs in Arabic from district shops, in a neighborhood densely populated by Syrian refugees,...
Court orders opposition politician to pay $7,000 in damages to Erdoğan for insult
A politician from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been ordered by a Turkish court to pay damages in the amount of...
Turkish hunger striker Gülmen: Justice is dying on 113th day of hunger strike
Dismissed educator Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on a hunger strike for 113 days to protest her dismissal under state of emergency decree-laws, has...
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