Remains of PKK militant mailed to family in a box
A new bill of Turkey’s Islamist and ultra nationalist government, which will pave the way for dismissals from universities with the accusation of ‘terrorist...
Turkey is the top violator of European rights charter, ECtHR statistics show
Turkey is ranked first in the number of violations of the European Convention on Human Rights in the 60-year history of the European Court...
Turkish prosecutor appeals acquittal of businessman Kavala in Gezi Park trial: report
A Turkish prosecutor appealed the acquittal of philanthropist Osman Kavala and eight others over their alleged role in the 2013 Gezi Park protests, calling...
Turkey will require foreign social media companies to appoint local representatives: report
Turkey will require foreign social media companies with high Internet traffic to appoint a representative in the country to address concerns raised by authorities...
Rights groups report doctors in İzmir prison tested positive for COVID-19
The Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) and the country’s Human Rights Association (İHD) have raised an alarm as two doctors in Şakran Prison in...
Yet another family ruined as mother dies while purge-victim father is in jail
Two-year-old Elif Zehra Çalışkan is now without parents as her mother died after falling from a balcony and her father, an academic, has been...
Turkish prosecutors level new terrorism-related charges against jailed Diyarbakır mayor
Ankara prosecutors have drafted an indictment for Selçuk Mızraklı, the former mayor of the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, for allegedly disseminating terrorist propaganda,...
PACE Turkey rapporteurs call on authorities to free political prisoners
Amid fear of the coronavirus pandemic’s spread to Turkey's overcrowded prisons, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of...
UN working group accepts 8 arbitrary detention complaints from Turkey
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has accepted eight individual complaints from Turkey under an “Urgent Action” procedure, Euronews Turkish reported on April...
President Erdogan appoints Basri Bağcı, deemed ‘unqualified’ to be an ECtHR judge, as new...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Basri Bağcı, who was deemed “unqualified” to be a judge at the European Court of Human Rights...
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