Bundestag vice president submitted complaint to UNESCO regarding jailed journalist Altan: report
Claudia Roth, vice president of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag), has submitted a communication to UNESCO under a special procedure that it says allows...
Turkish activist says sister detained at airport upon arrival for family funeral
Former public servant and activist Acun Karadağ on Sunday said on Twitter that her sister, identified only as Sevilay, was detained at the airport...
US mission to OSCE calls on Turkish gov’t to end state of emergency
The US mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called on Turkish government to bring an end to an...
Minority groups in Turkish provinces hit by quakes face discrimination
Members of minority groups living in Turkey’s southern provinces that were hit by devastating earthquakes in early February have been exposed to discrimination based...
404 people tortured, 10 people abducted in Turkey in 2020: TİHV
Four hundred four people were tortured and 10 were abducted in Turkey last year, according to an annual report released by the Human Rights...
Teen pregnancies in Turkey spark renewed scrutiny of child abuse, state protection
Several recent reports of teenage pregnancies in Turkey have reignited public debate over child abuse and the government’s failure to protect minors, amid official...
Trustees appointed to municipalities upon Erdoğan’s instructions, interior minister says
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said trustees in municipalities in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey were appointed by his ministry upon instructions from President Recep Tayyip...
Elections well managed, but Erdoğan, ruling parties enjoyed unjustified advantage: int’l observers
Elections in Turkey on Sunday were well managed and offered voters a choice between genuine political alternatives, but President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the...
European rights court slams convictions based on secret witness testimony
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that secret witness testimony, which Turkish courts have accepted as evidence, particularly in the trials...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in access ban imposed on X accounts
In a promising development amid increasing online censorship in Turkey, the country’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in the banning of access to...
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