Dismissed Kurdish mayors, politicians in Turkey conditionally released
Ten local politicians and mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) removed from office on May 15 by Turkey’s Interior Ministry, have been...
60 detained in latest operation targeting Turkish restaurant chain over alleged Gülen ties
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 60 suspects in the latest wave of operations targeting Maydonoz Döner, a popular fast-food chain that was previously put...
Turkey frees jailed pop star after public outcry
An İstanbul court on Monday ordered the release pending trial of one of Turkey’s biggest pop stars, after her jailing over a religious joke...
2 Turkish journalists detained in espionage probe
Ismail Dükel, the Ankara representative of the TELE 1 TV channel, and Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news director of the ultranationalist OdaTV news website,...
Turkey tops European Court of Human Rights docket with 21,200 pending cases
Turkey continues to account for the largest number of pending applications before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), with 21,200 complaints still awaiting...
Former police officer, summarily dismissed after 2016 coup attempt, dies by suicide
A former police officer who was summarily fired by a government decree after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 took his...
Intruders break into house of Turkey’s Human Rights Association co-chair
Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) announced in a press statement that unknown intruders broke into the house of Eren Keskin, a human rights activist...
Sözcü TV taken off air due to coverage of pro-İmamoğlu protests
Sözcü TV, one of Turkey’s most popular pro-opposition news channels, was taken off the air at midnight by order of the country’s media regulator,...
Turkish gov’t submitted forged letter to ECtHR as evidence in case of imprisoned judges
Turkish government submitted a forged letter attributed to Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) suggesting that two judges...
UN Working Group finds deprivation of liberty due to Gülen links arbitrary, unlawful and...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found at its 87th session held between April 27 and May 1, 2020 that the deprivation of...
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