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“Turkey Human Rights Dispatch” is the Stockholm Center for Freedom’s (SCF) weekly newsletter. Every Wednesday we share with you the latest developments in the field of...
Turkey’s top appeals court upholds convictions of Kavala, 4 others in Gezi Park trial
The Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey has upheld the convictions of five defendants including prominent businessman and civil society leader Osman Kavala in...
Stockholm Center for Freedom joins the Alliance Against Genocide
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) announced today that it has joined the Alliance Against Genocide, an international coalition dedicated to creating the...
25 more face detention in expanding probe targeting İstanbul Municipality
Turkish prosecutors have launched another wave of operations targeting the opposition-run İstanbul Municipality, issuing detention warrants for 25 people as part of an ongoing...
Şenyaşar family seeks justice before regional appeals court in southeastern Turkey
Lawyers for the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding justice for three of their relatives murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from the...
Turkey bars prominent Uyghur activist from entering country amid Chinese pressure
Uyghur rights activist Dolkun Isa has said Turkish authorities prevented him from entering the country during a transit stop at Istanbul Airport, calling it...
37 former military cadets retried, given life sentences again on coup charges
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed down life sentences to 37 former air force cadets in a retrial on coup-related charges due to their...
Kurdish politician sentenced to more than 4 years in prison on insult charges
A Turkish court has sentenced Kurdish politician and former MP Selma Irmak to four years, two months in prison on charges of insulting President...
Top court rejects application alleging negligence by public officials in 2015 Ankara bombings
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an individual application claiming negligence by public officials in the 2015 Ankara train station bombings, the biggest terrorist attack...
9 defendants sentenced to life in retrial over assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist
A Turkish court has sentenced nine defendants to life in prison in the retrial of public officials accused of complicity in the 2007 assassination...
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