Turkey detained 8,477 people, arrested 1,112 during protests, public gatherings in 2025: report
Turkish authorities detained at least 8,477 people and arrested 1,112 during protests and public gatherings in 2025, the Human Rights Association (İHD) said in...
Turkish police detain 26 during Saturday Mothers’ 969th weekly demonstration
Police have detained 26 people, including activists and family members of the Saturday Mothers, during the group’s 969th weekly demonstration in İstanbul’s Galatasaray Square,...
İstanbul court keeps İmamoğlu, 3 others jailed in ‘political espionage’ case
A Turkish court on Wednesday rejected requests for the release of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and three co-defendants in a “political espionage” trial...
Turkey’s top appeals court to decide on jailed opposition MP despite Constitutional Court judgment:...
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has announced that the authorities will wait for a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeals in the case...
Turkey orders detention of 4 civil servants over alleged Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of four civil servants from the Ministry of Treasury and Finance and the state-owned BOTAŞ energy company as...
Erdoğan signals limiting top court’s power as he sides with appeals court in crisis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using a judicial crisis involving two high courts due to conflicting rulings on a jailed lawmaker to press...
Turkish judiciary transformed into tool of political control under Erdoğan: report
Turkey’s judiciary has been transformed into a tool of political control under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, weakening checks and balances and enabling the suppression...
Journalist in Turkey ordered to pay TL 25K for insulting Erdoğan’s son-in-law
A journalist in Turkey has been ordered to pay a fine of TL 25,000 ($866) on conviction of insulting Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technical...
Mayor quits main opposition party amid reports of his talks to join the ruling...
Kilis Mayor Hakan Bilecen, elected from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has resigned from the party, saying promises made to him were...
Family of missing Syrian human rights activist says they feel unsafe in Turkey
The wife of Ahmed Katie, a Syrian human rights activist who went missing in İstanbul in late November, has announced that she and her...
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