Turkish court upholds rights leader’s life sentence
A Turkish appellate court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a leading critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose incarceration has injected tension into...
[Interview] Dr. Dana Moss calls on the UN to appoint a special rapporteur on...
Dr. Dana Moss, who developed the term ’’transnational repression,” in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom called on the United Nations to...
Teacher forced to work as a delivery man dies by suicide in İzmir
Social studies teacher Hasan Cihan Aslan, 26, who had to work as a delivery man for several years since he was unable to find...
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish party co-chair, provincial head on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of the co-chair and the Diyarbakır provincial co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) on...
Turkish prosecutor restricts access to judicial file of arrested documentary filmmaker
Access to the judicial file of documentary filmmaker and journalist Sibel Tekin, who was arrested on December 18 in Ankara on charges of terrorism,...
Opposition MP on EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee prevented from leaving Turkey due to travel...
Zeynel Özen, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) who holds both...
Journalist Hidayet Karaca has been held alone in a prison cell for more than...
Hidayet Karaca, a prominent journalist and former chief executive of the Samanyolu Media Group who was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to aggravated life,...
Ankara court blocks access to news and tweets about torture allegations against police officer
The Ankara 6th Criminal Court of Peace has ordered the removal of news and tweets regarding torture allegations against police officer Abdulkadir Türkyılmaz, who...
Number of Turkish asylum seekers in Germany increased by 216 percent in 2022: report
The number of Turkish nationals seeking asylum in Germany increased by 216 percent in 2022, putting Turkey third among countries with the most asylum...
Turkish police detain co-chair of pro-Kurdish party and 13 other members in simultaneous raids
Turkish police on Friday detained 14 members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), including its co-chair, in simultaneous raids across the country, Voice...
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