Turkey’s top appeals court overturns prison sentences of privates in 2016 coup case: report
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by a lower court sentencing 14 privates to life in prison on charges of involvement...
Turkey arrests 39 more people in latest raids targeting alleged Gülen followers: minister
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Saturday that 39 people had been jailed pending trial following nationwide raids over the past 10 days...
Mass detention of Gülen followers over donations sparks condemnation and anger
Politicians and human rights activists from Turkey and around the world have expressed anger, disappointment and condemnation over the mass detention of people affiliated...
Turkish police detain 6 members of Grup Yorum music band: report
Turkish police on Wednesday detained six members of folk music band Grup Yorum as they were rehearsing for a concert in İstanbul’s Beykoz district,...
Turkish authorities send opposition-linked city official back to jail after surgery following a heart...
Kalender Özdemir, director of investments at the opposition-run Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB), who survived a heart attack on August 22 while in pretrial detention,...
Health of severely disabled inmate is visibly deteriorating, says his lawyer
Ergin Aktaş, a severely disabled political prisoner, has contracted tuberculosis and COPD due to poor prison conditions, and his health is visibly deteriorating, according...
Journalist Mevlüt Öztaş succumbs to cancer after belated release from prison
Journalist Mevlüt Öztaş, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer while in jail, died on Wednesday after his belated release from prison despite a medical...
Turkey bans concert by French singer over support for Israel
Turkish authorities said on Wednesday that they have banned a planned concert by French singer Enrico Macias in İstanbul after calls to protest the...
Top court finds no rights violations of victims of 2015 curfew in Kurdish-majority city
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has unanimously ruled that the government did not violate the rights of people affected by a curfew in a Kurdish-majority southeastern...
Human Rights Association speaks out against arrest of Yüksel Street protestors
The Ankara branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in a statement published Tuesday on Twitter condemned the arrest of six former civil servants...
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