20 Iranian women detained in İstanbul at protest over death of Mahsa Amini
Turkish police detained 20 Iranian women in İstanbul for staging a demonstration in a prohibited area in protest of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini,...
Opposition deputy announces July human rights toll in Turkey
Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and a prominent human rights activist, on August 13 released his human...
Istanbul residents protest luxury housing project on one of last remaining disaster assembly sites
Residents of Istanbul’s Kadıköy district have been protesting plans to turn a 12,000-square-meter area designated for disaster coordination and assembly zones into a luxury housing project, warning...
HDP lawmaker submits 9 parliamentary motions to investigate rights violations in Turkish prisons
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış-Beştaş has submitted nine different motions to the parliamentary committee on human rights to investigate rights violations in...
Belgian attorneys go on hunger strike in solidarity with Turkish lawyers Ebru Timtik and...
Ten Belgian attorneys went on a hunger strike yesterday in solidarity with Turkish lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who have been on a...
Turkish prosecutors order detention of 18 people including police officers over alleged Gülen links
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 18 individuals including current and former police officers, as part of ongoing investigations...
Turkey’s top court rejects release request for detained mayor, orders health safeguards
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected a request to release Murat Çalık, the arrested mayor of Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü district, while ruling that authorities must take...
Far-right party member targets rights lawyer, claiming she carried out İstanbul attack
Kurdish lawyer and member of the Human Rights Association (İHD) Jiyan Tosun was targeted by Adem Taşkaya, a member of the far-right Zafer (Victory)...
Turkish parliament to amend law after Erdoğan’s call for suspension of lawyers accused of...
Turkey’s governing party has started working on an amendment to the law on lawyers following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s call on September 1 for...
Turkey’s media watchdog fines streaming platforms over ‘immorality’ and ‘obscenity’
Turkey’s broadcast regulator, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has fined five major streaming platforms, including Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video, for allegedly...
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