Turkey moves to close 2 LGBTQ+ rights groups as nationwide jailings reach at least...
Turkish authorities have begun proceedings aimed at closing two LGBTQ+ rights associations in the southern province of Mersin and also blocked 14 websites and...
Turkish court keeps journalist in pretrial detention over alleged terrorist group membership
A Turkish court on Tuesday kept journalist Nadiye Gürbüz in jail after spending more than seven months in pretrial detention, citing witnesses who have...
Turkey expands X blocking orders to journalists, women’s groups amid LGBT crackdown
Turkey has issued access blocking orders for the X accounts of two journalists, a news outlet and women’s rights groups, extending a series of...
Turkey accounts for 41 percent of pending cases at European human rights court
Applications involving Turkey accounted for 41 percent of all cases pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) at the end of August,...
29 arrested in latest phase of bribery probe targeting CHP-run municipality
Twenty-nine people have been arrested pending trial in the latest phase of a bribery investigation targeting the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)-run Seferihisar...
Documentary on murder of 8-year-old girl blocked in Turkey on national security grounds
A documentary questioning the investigation and trial surrounding the murder of 8-year-old Narin Güran has been blocked in Turkey on grounds of national security...
Turkey jails 32 more in anti-LGBTQ raids, total reaches at least 53
Courts in Ankara and Mersin jailed 32 more people pending trial on Tuesday in cases conducted under Turkey’s “My Family Is Safe” operation, raising...
Turkey detains 39 in raids targeting alleged far-left groups, including socialist party co-chair
Turkish police detained 39 people, including the co-chair of a socialist political party, in raids across 11 provinces on Tuesday as part of an...
CoE rights chief urges Turkey to release LGBT activists detained in nationwide crackdown
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) human rights commissioner on Tuesday called on Turkey to release anyone detained for LGBT rights or other civil society...
Turkey freezes pension of jailed Islamic preacher and Erdoğan critic Alparslan Kuytul
Turkish authorities have frozen the pension of jailed Islamic preacher and government critic Alparslan Kuytul, which his daughter said was the family’s sole source...
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