HRW criticizes Turkey over jailing of environmental activist ahead of COP31

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday criticized Turkey’s detention of an environmental activist, warning it raises concerns about whether the country will uphold the...

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 detains 32 people over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities on Thursday detained 32 people in two separate operations across multiple provinces as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen...

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...

Kurdish minor’s arm broken in police raid on wrong location in Turkey

Turkish police on Tuesday allegedly broke a minor’s arm and assaulted members of a Kurdish family during a pre-dawn raid on the wrong location...

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...

Erdoğan closes major private university in İstanbul, leaving students, academics in limbo

Turkey has closed İstanbul Bilgi University, a major private university long known for its liberal academic environment and international programs, by presidential decree, leaving...

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...

CHP mayor in western Turkey detained in corruption probe amid mounting pressure on party

Turkish police on Monday detained a district mayor and dozens of others in a corruption investigation in the western province of İzmir, in the...

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...
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