Opposition deputy takes deportation of Iranian asylum seekers to parliament

Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, a deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has submitted a parliamentary question about Turkish authorities' decision to deport four Iranian...

CHP deputy asks about 7 abducted purge victims in parliamentary question

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary question to the Parliament Speaker’s Office in which he...

Turkey arrests 438 detainees in İzmir-based probes into military members in last 7 months

Turkish courts in the past half year have arrested 438 suspects out of 847 detainees who were taken into police custody in six separate...

Another police chief jailed over alleged Gülen links dies in Turkish prison

Fifty-two-year-old Ahmet Tatar, a police chief who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Osmaniye province, has died in...

Yet another sick Turkish prisoner dies under custody because of negligence, maltreatment

Yet another sick prisoner, Celal Şeker, has lost his life because of negligence and maltreatment of the authorities in Turkey which is under the...

French President urges respect for rule of law in talks with Turkey’s Erdoğan

French President Emmanuel Macron told Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday that democratic countries had to respect the rule of law in...

TBB head Feyzioğlu draws ire over supporting Turkish gov’t’s massive rights violations

Metin Feyzioğlu, the head of Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB), has drawn ires from Turkey's democratic circles, jurists and social media  users following...

615 Turkish civil servants have applied for asylum in Germany

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday said 615 Turkish civil servants have asked for political asylum in Germany since a failed coup...
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Around 2,700 cases filed on insult charges against Erdoğan in past 6 months

A report prepared by two academics for the Human Rights Joint Platform (IHOP) has revealed that a total of 2,673 cases have been filed...

Turkish judges and prosecutors jailing people over ByLock could be prosecuted abroad for crimes...

Kerem Gülay, an academic from Turkey’s Koç University, said judges and prosecutors who are responsible for the mass incarceration of people for Gülen movement...
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