Appeals court overturns verdict acquitting Kavala, others in Gezi Park trial: report
A regional court of appeals in İstanbul has overturned the decision of a high criminal court that acquitted leading businessman and rights defender Osman...
Actor among 11 detained in Turkey for promoting opposition-led boycott
Turkish authorities on Thursday detained at least 11 people including an actor suspected of spreading calls for a blanket boycott of purchases to protest...
Turkey dominates ECtHR docket with over one-third of pending applications
Turkey is the leading country in the number of pending cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), with 21,800 applications awaiting judgement,...
PACE rapporteur condemns Turkey’s abuse of Interpol, Red Notice for Doğan Akhanlı
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rapporteur Bern Fabritius on Monday condemned misuse of Interpol Red Notices by Turkish government against government...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court refuses to hear expelled MP’s appeal
Turkey’s top court on Wednesday refused to hear an appeal by an opposition lawmaker and prominent human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu against his expulsion from...
Turkish student’s internship application rejected by Swedish professor over Sweden’s NATO bid
A professor at Stockholm University has turned down a Turkish student who applied for an internship because Turkey refuses to approve Sweden's application to...
Top court orders gov’t to compensate outlets over ban on access to publications
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of seven opposition media outlets, the access to whose reports and a column was blocked, ordering the...
Broadcasting watchdog RTÜK contributes to increasing censorship in Turkey: Human Rights Watch
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), is contributing to increasing censorship in the country by imposing punitive and disproportionate sanctions...
Turkish gov’t detains 12 people as they try to flee from persecution to Greece
Turkish security forces detained 12 people, including a former district governor, five children and three women, on Sunday in the Kuşadası district of Aydın...
Appeals court upholds light sentence given to police officer who killed 2 children with...
A regional appeals court upheld a light prison sentence given to a police officer convicted of killing two children with an armored police vehicle...
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