Turkish gov’t to seek extradition of former football player over alleged Gülen links
A high criminal court in İstanbul on Wednesday requested that the necessary judicial action be taken for the extradition of former Galatasaray football player...
European rights court rules against Turkey for excessive length of civil proceedings
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Thursday that Turkey violated former judge Sedef Ayvaz’s rightto adjudication of a complaint by a...
Women’s Rights in Turkey: 2021 in Review
The year 2021 witnessed an increase in rights violations against women in Turkey, with rising numbers of femicide cases and the March 10 withdrawal...
Minister Varank: Turkish gov’t has dismissed 1,289 TÜBİTAK personnel over links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government has dismissed 1,289 employees of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) over their alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Ex-police chief debunks coup claims against 2013 graft probe in interview published after his...
Former deputy police commissioner Hüseyin Korkmaz says in a final recorded interview, posted on YouTube after his death earlier this month, that the December...
Erdoğan threatens to punish Turkish media over ‘harmful content’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday threatened Turkish media with legal action over content “incompatible with national and moral values,” in a move...
CoE human rights commissioner to intervene in Kavala’s case at ECtHR
Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has announced her decision to intervene in a case against jailed Turkish rights activist...
23 rights groups call for release of Istanbul Bar board member
Twenty-three human rights organizations have called for the immediate release of İstanbul Bar Association executive board member Fırat Epözdemir, who was arrested last week...
6 lawyers from Ankara Bar human rights committee resign following bar’s decision not to...
Six lawyers from the Ankara Bar Association’s human rights committee resigned in protest following the bar’s decision not to publish a report on allegations...
COMMENTARY – Erdoğan, a modern-day Don Quixote, fights millions of monsters in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt
Just like in the novel by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, who
created a fictional character named Don Quixote who jousts with
windmills...
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