Council of Europe renews call for release of Demirtaş, Yüksekdağ and Kavala
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers has renewed its call for the immediate release of jailed former pro-Kurdish politicians Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen...
Top court rules recording of conversations during non-contact visits in prisons unlawful
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that recording conversations between inmates and their visitors during non-contact visitation, in which the parties are separated by a...
Article 19 calls for acquittal of first journalist tried under Turkey’s ‘disinformation’ law
The Europe branch of Article 19, a London-based international organization defending free expression worldwide, has called for the charges against a journalist who is standing trial...
Turkey detains 56 in expanding crackdown on Gülen movement
Turkish authorities have detained 56 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated operations across multiple provinces in...
Turkish journalist released under judicial supervision after detention over report on prosecutor
A Turkish court on Friday released journalist Barış Terkoğlu under judicial supervision, including a ban on international travel, after he was briefly detained on...
Torture and intimidation in a Turkish detention center: Former detainee shares details of harrowing...
Hayati Uysal, a 29-year-old Turkish man who was imprisoned for alleged links to the Gülen movement, has shared his harrowing account of torture in detention that...
Female students strip-searched, denied right to consult lawyer
Female students detained by Turkish police last week over alleged links to the Gülen movement were subjected to a strip-search and interrogated without a...
Veteran correspondent from state-run TRT detained in Turkey
A correspondent from public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) who was suspended from her job in April has been detained in Ankara,...
Over 5 million may need shelter support in Syria after quake: UN refugee agency
Some 5.3 million people in Syria may have been affected by a devastating earthquake last week and will need some form of shelter assistance,...
Erdoğan says ECtHR can do nothing about Kavala conviction
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has said that a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the release of businessman and philanthropist Osman...
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