83-year-old ailing Kurdish woman incarcerated again after ATK finds her ‘fit to remain in...
Makbule Özer, an ailing 83-year-old Kurdish woman, was jailed for a second time on Monday after a medical report issued by Turkey’s Council of...
Authorities reinstate former doctor summarily dismissed following nurse’s complaint 6 years ago
A former doctor who was fired from his job in a wide-ranging purge in the aftermath of a July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey...
Turkey’s top court annuls administrative control over student demonstrations on campus
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has struck down parts of a law that stipulated disciplinary action on university students for distributing leaflets, hanging banners and organizing...
NGO report documents more than 7,000 violations in central Turkey prisons in 2023
The Human Rights Association (İHD), one of Turkey’s major advocacy groups, has released a report on prisons located in the Central Anatolian region that...
Teacher jailed on Gülen links suffering from vision loss, heart disease
Family members and human rights activists have campaigned on social media for the release of Mustafa Seçkin, a history teacher jailed on accusations of...
Turkey detains 60 people on alleged Gülen links
Sixty people have been detained in as many as 14 cities for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group outlawed by Ankara,...
Woman dies after months in coma following domestic violence
Buse Ateş Suna, who was allegedly beaten by her husband, died after remaining in a coma for two months, the Yeni Yaşam news website...
Netherlands links updating of customs union with Turkey to compliance with ECtHR rulings
The Dutch parliament has voted to make the modernization of the European Union customs union agreement with Turkey conditional on the release of two...
Dutch journalist receives death threats for telling Erdoğan’s son-in-law to ‘get out of Kurdistan’
Dutch freelance journalist Frederike Geerdink has reported that she received death threats after criticizing Selçuk Bayraktar, the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Opposition party calls on Turkish gov’t to allow May Day demonstrations in Taksim Square
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to allow May Day demonstrations in İstanbul’s...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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