Sweden changes constitution to beef up anti-terror law amid Turkey’s extradition requests
Sweden’s parliament on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment that will make it possible to pass tougher anti-terror laws, a key demand from Turkey to...
Turkish journalist in exile says NATO must call Turkey’s bluff on his extradition
Bülent Keneş, a Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden, said the world should know by now that most people Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
Turkey tops list of countries with cases pending before European rights court
According to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) statistics, 26.3 percent of applications pending before the court as of October 31, 2022 had come...
Businessman arrested over ByLock use after rendition to Turkey from Azerbaijan
A Turkish businessman who was abducted and illegally brought to Turkey from Azerbaijan by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has been arrested on terrorism...
2,991 people died in Turkey in 2021 due to ‘violations of the right to...
At least 2,991 people died in Turkey last year due to "violations of the right to life" according to an annual report released on Monday...
Dismissed police officer disabled in workplace accident suffers both physically and psychologically in prison,...
Former police officer Mustafa Aydın, an inmate who lost six fingers in an industrial accident after he was fired from his law enforcement job...
Conditions for inmates at Turkish prison ‘much better than home,’ gov’t broadcaster claims
Elif Akkuş, a correspondent for Turkish public broadcaster TRT, spent a day with mothers and children at Sincan Prison in Ankara and said that...
Turkey’s request for Gülen extradition not sent to US court since it would be...
A Turkish minister has claimed that US officials haven’t sent Turkey’s requests for the extradition of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, accused by Ankara of...
Turkish court sentences 19 lawyers to a total of 146 years in prison on...
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced 19 lawyers affiliated with the now-closed Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) to 146 years in prison in total on...
‘I don’t feel safe in Sweden,’ says exiled journalist after attack in Stockholm
Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who lives in exile in Sweden, said...
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