By Abdullah Bozkurt The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a ... Read More »

Antonín Mokrý, president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 45 countries and ... Read More »

The Turkish government has not always observed the requirements of law that prohibit arbitrary arrest and detention and provide for the right of any person to challenge ... Read More »

Torture and mistreatment in police custody increased in Turkey despite the presence of closed-circuit cameras installed by the Turkish government in 2012, and police abused ... Read More »

The US State Department has stated that the continuing state of emergency, imposed following a July 2016 coup attempt, had far-reaching effects on the country’s ... Read More »

Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher sentenced to one year, three months in prison for allegedly “praising terrorism and a terrorist organisation” in 2016, began serving ... Read More »

Turkish-Armenian parliamentarian Garo Paylan from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has announced that he has submitted a legislative proposal for the recognition of the Armenian ... Read More »

Journalist Erk Acarer has claimed that Ümit Horzum, a former civil servant who was found 133 days after he went missing in Ankara, was tortured ... Read More »

US Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire on Thursday released a joint statement on their decision to pursue targeted sanctions ... Read More »

Kosovar President Hashim Thaci in a televised interview with T7 admitted for the first time that the arrest and deportation of six Turkish men suspected ... Read More »