Teacher jailed on Gülen links dies of heart failure after medical release
Mehmet Burhan, a teacher who is serving a sentence on conviction of links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died of heart failure two months...
Rights advocate submits parliamentary bill to repeal Turkey’s post-coup decree-laws
Opposition deputy and leading human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has brought to the parliamentary agenda a bill to repeal the executive decree-laws issued...
Name of torturer removed from school after public outrage
The name of a military officer who was accused of torturing Kurdish political prisoners following a 1980 military coup in Turkey was removed from...
School named after officer accused of torturing Kurds during 1980s military rule draws ire
The revelation that a primary school in the western province of İzmir was named after Esat Oktay Yıldıran, a military officer who was accused...
Turkish judges and prosecutors jailing people over ByLock could be prosecuted abroad for crimes...
Kerem Gülay, an academic from Turkey’s Koç University, said judges and prosecutors who are responsible for the mass incarceration of people for Gülen movement...
Turkey’s ‘disinformation law’ weaponized to target journalists: int’l NGOs
A new report released jointly by several international NGOs details the worsening press freedom environment in Turkey, accusing the government of instrumentalizing the recently...
Opposition demands release of jailed MP following 2nd top court ruling on rights violation
Opposition politicians have once again called for the release of jailed lawmaker Can Atalay, who was elected to parliament in May, after Turkey’s Constitutional...
Academic freedom in Turkey has declined since 2012 to among lowest in the world
Turkey’s academic freedom has sharply declined in the last decade, putting Turkey in 166th place out of 179 countries as of December 2022, Turkish...
Top court again says jailed lawmaker’s rights violated
Turkey’s top court on Thursday ruled for the second time that the rights of jailed lawmaker Can Atalay, who was elected to parliament in...
Turkish court acquits university students strip-searched during detention
A court in western Turkey has acquitted 17 university students out of 23 who were detained on accusations of links to the Gülen movement...
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