İstanbul Governor’s Office refuses to allow Mahsa Amini commemoration
The İstanbul Governor’s Office has refused to issue a permit to a group of civil society organizations that sought to hold a commemoration ceremony...
Air force cadets convicted on coup charges suffering from COVID-19 in prison
Air force cadets serving time in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison on conviction of taking part in an abortive putsch in Turkey on July 15,...
Turkish court jails Islamist woman who insulted Atatürk at mausoleum
A Turkish court on Sunday jails Safiye İnci, an Islamist woman who was detained by police after she filmed herself insulting Turkey’s founding father,...
Turkey holds 5 students for nearly a year in pretrial detention over alleged Gülen...
Five university students in southern Turkey have been held in pretrial detention for more than 11 months without an indictment over alleged links to...
Unregistered Syrians who fail to leave İstanbul by Sept. 24 to face sanctions
The Turkish Ministry of Interior has announced that sanctions will be imposed on Syrians who fail to leave İstanbul by Sept. 24 despite being...
IFJ calls on Turkey to investigate mistreatment of Yemeni journalist in detention
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Turkish government to investigate the mistreatment of Adnan Al-rajhi, a Yemeni journalist based in...
Turkish chief prosecutor seeks to retire shortly after arrest of security guard
Hadi Salihoğlu, an İstanbul public prosecutor, has sought permission to retire one day after the arrest of his security guard as part of a...
Nearly half of students in Turkey’s MESEM program report accidents, overwork
Forty-eight percent of students enrolled in Turkey’s Vocational Education Centers (MESEM) have experienced at least one workplace accident, while 53 percent work more than...
EP rapporteur calls Turkey’s noncompliance with ECtHR rulings in Kavala case a ‘disaster’
Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, has slammed the upholding of the convictions of five defendants in the Gezi Park trial, describing...
Turkish authorities deny release to critically ill cancer patient arrested on Gülen links
Yusuf Özmen, who was arrested in March to serve a sentence on a Gülen-linked conviction despite having stage 4 cancer, remains in prison despite...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...