ECtHR’s new rulings fault Turkey for pretrial detention of 450 after 2016 failed coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey in two new rulings over the arrest and pretrial detention of 450 people following...
Amid disappearance of little girl, public figures highlight large number of missing child cases...
Amid the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakır province, public figures have raised awareness of the large number of missing children...
Presidential candidate Demirtaş’s lawyers to apply to Turkish top court for release
Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), will apply for his release to Turkey’s Constitutional Court...
Arrest warrant issued for Kurdish singer and activist Tunç for insulting former PM Yıldırım
An arrest warrant has been issued for famous Kurdish singer and activist Ferhat Tunç for insulting former Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Twitter...
Sweden can’t call itself a democratic nation if it fulfils Turkey’s demand to hand...
“Under no circumstances can Sweden fulfill Turkey’s demand to deport exiled Turkish journalist Bülent Keneş and continue calling itself a democratic nation governed by...
UK lawyer files new appeal at ECtHR for journalist jailed for 9 years over...
A leading British human rights lawyer has filed an expanded appeal at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of Ali Ünal,...
Amnesty expresses concern over increasing arbitrary pre-trial detention, torture in Turkey in UN Human...
Amnesty International (AI) has stated that the human rights organization is alarmed by the increasing use of arbitrary pre-trial detention, often in cases where there...
Turkish veteran journalist Ünal Tanık arrested for not revealing his news source
A veteran journalist who run a popular online news portal in Turkey has been jailed for 273 days for not revealing the source of...
Turkish gov’t detains actor Ömer Pekin over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish theater player Ömer Pekin, who has been mostly known with his role in Turkish radio comedy "Perişan FM (Miserable FM)" and state-run TRT's...
Police detain Turkish labor union members demanding reinstatement of dismissed workers
Turkish police detained 13 members of the Confederation of Public Workers Unions (KESK) on Monday as they staged a protest demanding the reinstatement of...
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