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Judge notorious for convicting dissidents put in charge of Turkey’s top judicial board
A Turkish judge known for convicting dissidents has been put in charge of Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), in a move seen...
EP Turkey rapporteur says linking Sweden’s NATO bid to Turkey’s EU process would be...
Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, has said it would be wrong to connect Sweden’s entry to NATO and the process for...
Police break up protest, detain 30 commemorating slain Gezi activist in Ankara
Turkish police on Thursday dispersed a demonstration by a group commemorating an activist who was killed during the nationwide anti-government Gezi Park protests in...
İstanbul police detain 59 at event marking 10th anniversary of Gezi protests
Police intervention in a demonstration held in central İstanbul by a group wanting to mark the tenth anniversary of the anti-government Gezi Park protests...
Opposition roadmap for undoing Erdoğan’s legacy
Turkey’s multi-faceted opposition alliance wants to undo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s two-decade legacy of highly centralized and religiously conservative rule.
Here is a look at...
AKP supporter threatens opposition party voters on social media amid upcoming elections
A man identified as Yusuf Ziya K. in a video posted on social media threatened to target government critics and opposition party voters if the ruling...
Turkey often fails to implement ECtHR decisions on freedoms of expression and press: report
An annual report by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers on its supervision of the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)’s...
‘US doesn’t take Turkish justice system seriously,’ Barkey says on alleged links to 2016...
American academic Henri Barkey, commenting on allegations of his involvement in a failed coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016, has said the US...
Crackdown on Human Rights Defenders: 2022 in Review
The situation of human rights defenders in Turkey has significantly deteriorated since a coup attempt in July 2016, with the HRDs subjected to judicial...
Turkey sees tightened government control in run-up to elections: HRW
Turkey’s government has increased its censorship powers and targeted perceived critics and opponents with bogus criminal proceedings and prison sentences in advance of the...
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