Prominent jurist faces criminal complaints due to remarks about judicial crisis
Members of Turkey’s top appeals court have filed criminal complaints against a prominent law professor due to his remarks about a recent crisis involving...
Dismissed teacher jailed in Turkey’s post-coup purge dies by suicide
A Turkish opposition lawmaker said Sunday that a teacher dismissed under a government decree over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement died by...
Turkey jails 4 border guards for life for torturing Syrian migrants to death
A Turkish court has sentenced four border guards to life in prison for torturing two Syrian migrants to death along the Syrian border in...
Lower court in Turkey refuses to release opposition MP from prison despite top court...
A high criminal court in İstanbul has failed to comply with a recent ruling from Turkey’s Constitutional Court, which found rights violations in the...
Rights groups urge Turkey to include political prisoners in sentence reform
Twelve international human rights organizations have jointly called on Turkey’s Ministry of Justice to ensure that political prisoners are included in a forthcoming sentence...
Twitter’s lawyer in Turkey tweets hate speech against Gülen movement
Lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, who represents Twitter in Turkey, used hate speech against supporters of the Gülen movement in a series of tweets on Saturday,...
Conviction of rights activists proves Turkish courts operate under Erdoğan’s instructions: HRW
The conviction of prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala and his seven co-defendants is ample proof that Turkish courts operate under instructions from the...
Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for torture in Afyon province, demands investigation into perpetrators
Turkish Constitutional Court ruled in favor of an applicant who claimed that he was tortured for 25 days during his detention at Afyon police...
Turkey’s chief justice says top court lacks authority to enforce ECtHR rulings
Turkey’s Constitutional Court does not have the authority to ensure the implementation of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the court’s...
Turkey detains 22 people over alleged Gülen links
Twenty-two people, including former military cadets and former police academy students, have been detained on warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to...
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