Turkey orders detention of 42 former military cadets over suspected Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Monday ordered the detention of 42 former military cadets who are accused of communicating with alleged members of the Gülen movement,...
Opposition MP injured in police crackdown on Istanbul protests
A Turkish opposition lawmaker was injured Monday when police intervened against protests at the Istanbul provincial headquarters of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the...
Syrian refugee who lost entire family in fire says they were evicted from their...
Hussein Aljasem, a Syrian refugee who lost his six children, his wife and two nephews in a fire caused by a coal burning stove...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court denies release request of inmate with brain tumors and disabled son
Turkey’s Constitutional Court last week denied the request for release of Lütfi Koç (46), a political prisoner suffering from two brain tumors and a...
Mothers urge Turkish gov’t to tackle root causes of youth crime as juvenile sentences...
Mothers raising teenagers in Istanbul’s poorer neighborhoods have urged the Turkish government to tackle the structural causes of youth crime as a new judicial...
Pro-Kurdish party members among 47 detained during protest against Turkish offensive in N. Syria,...
Turkish police on Monday broke up a protest that included members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Regions Party (DBP)...
Turkey should end detention of lawyers held for representing clients: ICJ
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Monday expressed its deep concern at the issuance of detention warrants for 60 lawyers in Turkey on...
Top court rejects all but one rights violation in case of 2015 killing of...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has dismissed nearly all allegations of rights violations in the case of a Kurdish woman whose body was left lying in...
UN committee faults Turkey in case of teacher who died in custody after arrest...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee on Wednesday released its decision concerning an application submitted on behalf of a teacher who was allegedly tortured...
Turkish lawyers should not be criminalized for engaging in their profession: PACE
Rapporteurs from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have expressed concern over the situation of lawyers in Turkey after what they...
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