Acting rector of Boğaziçi University dismisses activist academic
Prof. Dr. Naci İnci, the vice rector of Boğaziçi University who was recently appointed acting rector, has dismissed Can Candan, a faculty member and...
Jailed since 2017, Kavala says Turkish government made an example of him to intimidate...
Turkish philanthropist and human rights defender Osman Kavala said his eight-year imprisonment on charges he calls fabricated serves as a deliberate warning to civil...
Turkey orders detention of 10 foreign ministry staff over alleged Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for four current and six former staff members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over alleged links to...
Turkish police detain 8 Kurdish artists in Van and Diyarbakır provinces
Turkish police detained eight Kurdish musicians and theater actors in Diyarbakır and Van provinces on Saturday over plays they have staged in Kurdish.
According to a...
Activists call for release of ailing 84-year-old inmate
Social media users on Wednesday called on Turkish authorities to release Halil Karakoç, an ailing prisoner who has been kept behind bars even after...
Turkey charges TV star manager over alleged govt ‘overthrow’ attempt
Turkish prosecutors have formally charged a renowned manager of television stars with “attempting to overthrow the government,” the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Tuesday,...
Turkey’s deepening rights restrictions incompatible with European standards, CoE human rights chief says
Turkey’s ongoing restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms are incompatible with European human rights standards, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights warned...
New report highlights crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey
The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is bent on marginalizing...
Turkish court turns down objection to arrest of Gezi Park trial defendants
A Turkish court on Tuesday rejected an objection to the arrest of eight defendants including prominent businessman and civil society leader Osman Kavala in...
Erdoğan labels journalist in exile a ‘terrorist,’ demands his extradition from Swedish PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded the extradition of a Turkish journalist in exile in Sweden whom he called a “terrorist,” during a...
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