Prosecutor asks to keep Kurdish politician in jail despite eligibility for release
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded the continued pretrial detention of Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish politician and the former co-mayor of Diyarbakır who has been...
Journalist indicted over remarks about father of slain soldier
Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of up to three years for a veteran journalist on charges of “inciting hatred and hostility among...
Celebrity gets suspended sentence for ‘insulting’ former soldier convicted of rape
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence to popular actress Farah Zeynep Abdullah on insult charges due to her criticism of a...
Turkey detains 42 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police on Thursday detained 42 people for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by the government of “terrorist activities.”
Carried...
Turkey arrests teacher over ByLock use despite ECtHR judgment
Turkish authorities have arrested former teacher Güler Çetinkaya due to her alleged use of the ByLock mobile messaging app despite a landmark European Court...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s spy colonel Kemal Eskintan, master of conspiracy plots
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Based on a wealth of revelations in the last couple of years during trial proceedings, the view that the false flag coup...
Turkey among countries to benefit from free VPN access to fight censorship
Internet privacy company Proton said Wednesday it would offer a network of free VPN servers for use in a number of countries, including Turkey,...
COMMENTARY Erdoğan’s war on books and publishing houses
Abdullah Bozkurt
The untold part of the story about the
unprecedented attack on freedom of the press in Turkey is the toll the
crackdown, launched by the...
38 minors among 166 detained in pro-Kurdish party’s Nevruz celebration in Diyarbakır
One hundred sixty-six people, including 38 minors, were detained by police at the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party’s (DEM Party) Nevruz celebration held...
Infographic: July 15, 2016 | Blow to Human Rights
Sources:
Activity report, the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures
State Department 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey
News stories by Turkey's state-run...
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