Local head of Turkey’s ruling AKP appointed as trustee for 7 seized companies in...

Mahmut Birlik, vice chairman of the Gaziantep branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has...

Pro-Kurdish rights defender Dr. İpekyüz detained by Turkish police in Diyarbakır

Human rights advocate Dr. Necdet İpekyüz, a member of the Executive Board of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV), the chairperson of the...

Cartoonist Trivedi portrays 13 people disappeared in Turkey since July 15 coup attempt

Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist and free speech activist, has called people all around the world to raise their voices for the disappeared people...

Turkey’s rule of law index plummets to historic lows following 2016 coup attempt

Turkey’s rule of law metrics have fallen to their lowest levels since 1980 in the years following a July 15, 2016 attempted coup, according...

HSYK reshuffles 1,035 judges and prosecutors across Turkey

The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has decided to reshuffle 1,035 judges and prosecutors on Tuesday following Friday's mass purge in the judiciary. According...

Justice remains elusive for family of 11-year-old girl six years after her suspicious death

Şaban Vatan, the father of Rabia Naz, who died six years ago and whose death was allegedly covered up by a senior ruling party...

Trustee removes name of slain Kurdish activist Elçi from park in Van

Hacı Asım Akgül, a trustee appointed by the government to Van’s Çatak Municipality, has removed the name of former Diyarbakır Bar Association head and...

Turkish band member ends hunger strike on 322nd day after negotiations with officials: report

Musician İbrahim Gökçek of the left-wing Turkish band Grup Yorum ended a prolonged hunger strike on Tuesday after positive negotiations with Turkish authorities over...

Turkish court gives 9-year jail sentence to man for taking medicine to Gülen-linked hospitals...

A 60-year-old Turkish man, Abdurrahman Selçuk, has been convicted of terror charges and handed down a nine-year jail sentence by a Turkish court on...

CoE’s Jagland criticises Turkish gov’t over massive human rights violations

The Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland has criticised Turkish government's massive human rights violations under the state of emergency during a speech...
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