Ankara systematically tortures supporters of Gülen movement, Kurds, Turkey Tribunal rapporteurs say: report
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, started proceedings in Geneva on Monday...
University students spend night in park to protest high accommodation prices
A group of university students began sleeping in a park in İstanbul on Sunday to protest the high price of accommodation, while the Turkish...
Turkish court sentences 20 female university students to prison over Gülen links
Twenty female university students were handed down prison sentences on Friday for alleged links to the Gülen movement, sparking an outcry among activists and...
Turkey Tribunal: Panel of judges hears victims of torture, rights activist
The panel of judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, heard...
CoE fails to start infringement proceedings against Turkey in Kavala, Demirtaş cases
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has failed to start infringement proceedings against Turkey due to the country’s non-compliance with European...
Former bureaucrat who turned up in Ankara prison after 9 months missing has lost...
Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former Turkish bureaucrat who had been missing since December 2020 and has been found in Ankara’s Sincan Prison, has lost...
Tribunal to adjudicate Turkey’s rights record
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey including torture, abductions, shortcomings in freedom...
Cases of Turkish journalists before ECtHR drag on as they languish in jail: report
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has yet to deliver verdicts on the cases of dozens of journalists from Turkey, many of whom...
Wife of police chief, suffering from COVID-19, detained in hospital, handcuffed to bed
Esmahan Demirhan, the wife of a former police chief who led corruption investigations in Turkey in 2013, was detained in the hospital where she...
Police detain man with severe Parkinson’s over Gülen links
İbrahim Karakoç, 59, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and other serious health problems, was detained on Tuesday in Isparta province for alleged links to...
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