Rights activist writer gets suspended sentence over Kobani tweet
A suspended prison sentence of 15 months has been handed down to a writer, lawyer and human rights activist in Turkey due to a...
Journalists among dozens detained during protests over removal of Kurdish mayors
On the second day of protests that erupted over the removal of three Kurdish mayors from their posts in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, dozens...
Wife of imprisoned Kurdish leader Demirtaş criticizes prolonged COVID-19 restrictions in prisons
Başak Demirtaş, the wife of jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, criticized prolonged COVID-19 restrictions in prisons preventing families from having physical contact with their...
Women with disabilities in Turkey face alarmingly high rates of abuse: UN report
Women with disabilities in Turkey confront very high rates of abuse as well as systemic barriers in nearly every aspect of life, including access...
AKP deputy slams TÜSİAD for urging improved democracy and expressing concern over the economy
Fatih Şahin, the general secretary of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), slammed the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (TÜSİAD) after the group...
Defendant in ‘High School Girls Case’ was subjected to strip-search while in custody, court...
A university student said she was subjected to a strip-search while in custody, according to the court records for the first hearing of what...
Jailed Kurdish leaders mark 5 years behind bars on terrorism charges
Former co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ on Thursday passed the five-year mark behind bars, Turkish Minute...
Turkish police accused of beating 2 detainees
Two men detained in connection with a shooting incident in İstanbul say they were subjected to police abuse and coercion while in custody, the...
Senior bank manager fired for sharing meme making fun of economic downturn
Senior bank manager Hakan Dağlı was fired from his job for posting on his WhatsApp profile a "Money Heist"-themed meme about the Turkish Central...
ECtHR notified Turkey about combining cases of 30 soldiers, cadets arrested after failed coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) notified Turkey in November that it had combined applications concerning the arrest and pretrial detention of 30...
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