Opposition party vice chair acknowledges systematic torture of supporters of the Gülen movement
Ahmet Zeki Üçok, vice chair of the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party, after a visit to two journalists who were recently imprisoned, said they...
Turkey detains lawyers based on anonymous tip
The Ankara police have carried out house raids to detain 20 people, including lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği, ÇHD), on...
Turkey arrests Kurdish journalist for alleged links to terrorism
A court in southeastern Turkey has ruled to arrest Selahattin Kaygusuz, a Kurdish journalist who was detained last week for alleged membership in a...
18 rights, media organizations condemn Turkish journalist’s arrest over report on corruption
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have joined 16 other media and human rights organizations in condemning the arrest of a...
6 Turkish police officers indicted for torturing detainees
İstanbul prosecutors have indicted six police officers on charges of torturing three people in their custody in 2022, the T24 news website reported.
The detainees...
Man faces prison for social media posts ridiculing Turkish president Erdoğan
A man in Turkey’s eastern Tunceli province will stand trial on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on two occasions, the Diken...
Court in eastern Turkey convicts members of family mistreated by police during house raid
A court in eastern Turkey has sentenced to prison two women from a family that suffered mistreatment at the hands of police officers in...
Imam suspended for criticizing Turkish government policy on Israel
An imam in eastern Turkey has been suspended due to his criticism of Turkish government policy on Israel’s war against Hamas, Turkish Minute reported,...
280 journalists appeared in court in Turkey in 2023: report
A total of 280 journalists appeared in at least 821 hearings in Turkish courts throughout 2023, according to a new report released by the...
Turkey’s top court delivers another ruling against internet censorship
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in an access ban imposed on news websites Yüksekova Haber and Zap Haber in 2016, adding to...
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