Turkish court considers publishing leaked state documents an act of terrorism
A Mersin court that handed down a prison sentence of 19 years, six months to jailed investigative journalist Mehmet Baransu on three separate charges...
Turkey accounted for nearly 90 pct of journalist arrest, detention and imprisonment cases monitored...
Turkey accounted for nearly 90 percent of cases involving the arrest, detention or imprisonment of journalists documented across Europe in the first six months...
Turkey’s top appeals court upholds prison sentence of prominent lawyer
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence handed down to the head of a now-closed lawyers’ association who has been behind...
Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons
Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday after human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Turkey detains 39 in raids targeting alleged far-left groups, including socialist party co-chair
Turkish police detained 39 people, including the co-chair of a socialist political party, in raids across 11 provinces on Tuesday as part of an...
Turkey allocates only 10 out of 20,000 teaching positions for Kurdish language
The Turkish Ministry of Education's decision to allocate only 10 positions for Kurdish language teachers out of 20,000 new teaching positions has sparked significant...
Asylum seekers fear Iran’s long arm in Turkey: report
Iranian authorities have been intimidating and targeting Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, who are becoming increasingly concerned about their safety, The New York Times...
Turkey seized 1,326 companies, $32 billion in assets in Gülen crackdown: report
Turkish authorities have seized 1,326 companies over alleged links to the Gülen movement since a 2016 coup attempt, taking control of assets worth $32...
27 more May Day demonstrators detained in house raids in İstanbul
Turkish police detained 27 more people who resisted law enforcement in İstanbul on May Day in an attempt to hold a demonstration in central...
Amnesty urges Council of Europe to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) to institute infringement proceedings against Turkey for failing to implement the...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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