30 Turkish bar associations call for Demirtaş’s release after European court ruling
Thirty bar associations across Turkey on Wednesday urged the authorities to release prominent Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtaş, following a binding European Court of...
PACE co-rapporteurs call on Turkey to implement ECtHR rulings following visit to Kavala in...
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have called on Turkey to implement European...
Purge victim claims his fields were set on fire in apparent hate crime
Celallettin Tokmak, a former teacher who was summarily dismissed from his job with a government decree, said his fields were set on fire in...
Jailed İstanbul mayor, wife receive ‘Award for Courage’ from German foundation
The Axel Springer Freedom Foundation in Germany has presented its Award for Courage to jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his wife, human rights advocate Dilek...
Turkish Maarif Foundation signs MoU to take over Gülen-linked schools in Central African Republic...
The Turkish Maarif Foundation (TMV), a state-run education body, signed a memorandum of understanding with Central African Republic (CAR) officials on February 9 to...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 295 active duty military officers over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 304 people, including 295 active duty military officers, in what is considered the largest operation against members...
Opposition leader urges Turkey to address widespread rights abuses before peace talks with PKK
Mahmut Arıkan, leader of the Islamist opposition Felicity Party (SP), said Wednesday Turkey should resolve widespread rights violations before debating potential visits to jailed...
Turkish doctors file complaint against gov’t officials for 70 deaths in hospital destroyed by...
The Turkish Physicians Union (Hekimler Birliği) has filed a complaint against the government officials they claim are responsible for the collapse of a hospital...
Scores of women tell of unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons after AKP deputy’s denial:...
A number of women subjected to unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons have come forward to talk about their experiences in videos shared on social...
Turkish court jails pro-Kurdish Dihaber reporter on ‘terror’ charges
Gökhan Öner, a reporter for the now-closed pro-Kurdish news agency Dihaber, has been put by a Turkish court in pretrial detention on terror charges.
Öner...
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