30 Turkish bar associations call for Demirtaş’s release after European court ruling
Thirty bar associations across Turkey on Wednesday urged the authorities to release prominent Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtaş, following a binding European Court of...
Main opposition official detained in expanding probe into İstanbul Municipality’s voter data
Turkish police have detained the information technology coordinator of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) as part of an expanding investigation into the...
RSF urges Turkey to release journalist arrested on espionage charges
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday called on Turkish authorities to immediately release journalist Merdan Yanardağ, the editor-in-chief of the TELE1 broadcaster, who has been arrested...
Journalists ordered to provide statements to police over coverage of jailed İstanbul mayor
Turkish prosecutors ordered six journalists to give statements to the police as suspects in an investigation linked to jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Turkish...
2 Turkish journalists get suspended sentences over social media post and news report
Two Turkish journalists have each received suspended sentences in separate cases over a social media post and a news report, Turkish media reported.
The İstanbul...
Jailed cartoonist faces new charges for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan
Cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan, already standing trial over a cartoon accused of insulting religious values, has been indicted again for allegedly “publicly insulting the president,”...
Press freedom group urges justice for murdered Turkish environmental journalist
A leading press freedom coalition has called on Turkish authorities to investigate the killing of journalist Hakan Tosun, who died after being beaten in...
Turkey’s top court rules government violated academic’s freedom of expression
The Constitutional Court of Turkey has ruled that the government violated academic Yaman Akdeniz’s right to freedom of expression by refusing to release official...
19 women killed by men, 22 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Nineteen women were murdered by men in Turkey in October and another 22 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences of 7 Kurdish journalists
The Ankara Regional Court of Justice has upheld prison sentences handed down to seven Kurdish journalists on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization,”...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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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...