Kurdish group says planned anti-Erdoğan rally banned by German police
Germany’s Kurdish community said Monday it had been banned by Berlin authorities from holding a rally at the Brandenburg Gate during a visit by...
Membership in Human Rights Association grounds for dismissal from public service, OHAL commission says
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) said membership in Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) is a sign of ties to the...
Gülmen and Özakça to end hunger strike if purged civil servants reinstated to jobs
Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two educators who went on a hunger strike after they were fired by government decrees in the aftermath of...
Lawyers for HDP’s jailed presidential candidate Demirtaş apply to Turkey’s top court for his...
Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Tuesday applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court for his...
Academic sentenced for insulting Turkish president also dismissed from university
Çetin Koçyiğit, a Turkish academic from Kafkas University, has been given a prison sentence of two years, five months for “insulting” Turkish President Recep...
Jailed journalists refuse to wear uniforms designed for coup suspects in Turkish prisons
Imprisoned journalists from Cumhuriyet and Sözcü daily told members of Turkish press organization who visited them in Silivri jailed on Thursday that they will...
International bar associations plead for release of Turkish lawyers on death fast
Twenty-two international bar associations have asked Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals to order the release of lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who went...
Amnesty protests arrest of 2 members in front of Turkish embassies
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Amnesty International members have protested the detention and arrest in Turkey of İdil Eser and Taner Kılıç, both of AI, in front of Turkish...
German police carry out nationwide raids on Erdoğanist Turkish gang
Hundreds of police officers have taken part in raids across Germany targeting the Osmanen Germania boxing club, an ultranationalist pro-Erdoğan gang that German officials...
Jailed Turkish businessman Kavala: I’m waiting to see the face of justice
Prominent Turkish businessman and human rights activist Osman Kavala, who has been in pre-trial detention in İstanbul's Silivri Prison since November 2017, has said,...
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