Police officer, neighborhood watchman beat and threaten young man in western Turkey
A police officer and a neighborhood watchman appeared to beat a young man and threaten to kill him on Monday in western Turkey's Aydin...
Wife says CoE inaction over Kavala case undermines ECtHR’s credibility
Professor Ayşe Buğra, the wife of jailed businessman and rights activist Osman Kavala, has criticized the Council of Europe (CoE) for its inaction in...
Turkey freezes assets of 770 people, including journalists and rights activists, over alleged terrorism...
Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 people including some journalists in exile and an organization on the grounds of terrorism financing, Turkish Minute...
Grim start to 2025 as dozens of women in Turkey are murdered by men
Turkey has had a grim start to the new year, with 33 women murdered by men in January and another 32 dying under suspicious...
Most applicants sought right to a fair trial at top court in 2021, chief...
More than 73 percent of the people who applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court in 2021 claiming they had been subjected to rights violations sought...
UN special rapporteurs urge Turkey to end mistreatment of human rights lawyers
United Nations human rights special rapporteurs have raised serious concerns over the imprisonment and mistreatment of human rights lawyers in Turkey and expressed concern...
ECtHR orders Turkey to pay damages to German-Turkish reporter
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ordered Turkey to pay damages in excess of 12,300 euros ($14,000) to a German-Turkish journalist, ruling...
Millions call gov’t hotline for aid, reflecting deepening poverty in Turkey
Nearly 5 million people in Turkey called a government-operated hotline for aid in 2024, reflecting a deepening poverty crisis affecting an increasing number of...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: 2021 in Review
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm has reached tens of thousands of Turkish citizens abroad, from spying through diplomatic missions and pro-government diaspora organizations...
İstanbul mayor to appear in court in June for ‘targeting’ expert witness
İstanbul’s popular Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is set to appear in court in June after an indictment filed against him for allegedly targeting an expert...
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