Turkish police re-detain Kurdish Mayor Yaşar after her release from prison
Figen Yaşar, the Kurdish co-mayor of the Bulanık district of Muş province, was again taken into custody by police on Wednesday following her release...
Turkish court orders release of 6 jailed protesters in İmamoğlu protest case, but 7...
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the release of six people out of 13 jailed over a protest marking the 100th day of the...
UN panel calls for immediate release of former general, serving life sentence over alleged...
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the imprisonment of Akın Öztürk, the former commander of the Turkish Air Force...
COMMENTARY — Carl Bildt’s love affair with Turkey’s dictator
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The fallout from the damaging revelations made by former national security adviser Michael Flynn as part of an investigation by Special Counsel...
Turkish mayor built martyrs’ cemetery ‘just in case’ someone from town martyred
A Turkish mayor ordered the establishment of a martyrs’ cemetery in a town in northern Gümüşhane province in the event some youths from the...
Journalist unions’ joint statement slams bill stipulating prison for online disinformation
Seven Turkish journalist unions criticized a bill on Friday presented to parliament by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) that paves the way...
Turkey’s top court rejects delay to HDP closure ruling
Turkey’s top court has rejected a pro-Kurdish opposition party’s request to defer until after May elections a trial that could end in the party’s...
Turkey’s Interior Ministry: 616 detained in one week over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced that 616 people have been detained in last week due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement while...
UN rights chief calls on parties to resolve migrant crisis on Belarus-Poland border
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has called on Belarus and Poland to resolve the migrant crisis on their border, where large numbers...
Syrian singer Souleyman detained in Turkey on terrorism charges
Turkish police on Wednesday detained celebrated Syrian singer Omar Souleyman and questioned him about alleged ties to outlawed Kurdish militants, his manager told AFP.
Souleyman...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...