Woman jailed with 2-year-old son on trumped-up terrorism charges appeals for justice
Emine Ceyran (35), who is in prison with her two-year-old son on trumped-up terrorism charges, in a letter to human rights defender and pro-Kurdish...
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,...
Dismissed police officer disabled in workplace accident suffers both physically and psychologically in prison,...
Former police officer Mustafa Aydın, an inmate who lost six fingers in an industrial accident after he was fired from his law enforcement job...
Prosecution demands jail terms for journalists over reporting on Turkish black op in Libya:...
A prosecutor has demanded sentences ranging from eight to 19 years for journalists over their reports on a Turkish intelligence officer killed in Libya,...
Turkish court rejects prosecutor’s request to release LeMan staff in cartoon case
An Istanbul court on Wednesday rejected a prosecutor’s request to release five staff members of the LeMan satirical weekly who are on trial over...
‘I’m critical of the Turkish government. I’d be ashamed of myself if I kept...
Herkül Millas, 82, a Greek-Turkish columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily who lives in Athens, said he as a government critic only wrote what...
Turkey’s intel agency threatens family of Turkish-German academic who criticized Erdoğan
Burak Çopur, a Turkish-German professor of political science at Germany’s Essen University, said in an interview with Ahval on Thursday that his family in...
Turkish police detain 22 from Antalya municipality-linked group in opposition crackdown
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 22 people in a raid on an association linked to Antalya’s opposition-run metropolitan municipality, the latest move in what...
Turkey detains 22 over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police units have detained 22 people as part of an operation based in İstanbul targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, local media...
Turkish gov’t not serious about UN’s periodic human rights review process: Human Rights Watch
The Turkish government’s refusal to acknowledge and address key issues at the core of the human rights crisis the country is currently facing shows...
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