Appeals court upholds imprisonment of peace petition signatory academic
The İstanbul Regional Appeals Court on Sunday upheld the prison sentence of Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel, who signed a peace petition along with 1,128...
Family, rights advocates commemorate Berkin Elvan on 11th anniversary of his death
Berkin Elvan, a teenager who was struck in the head with a gas canister fired by a police officer during the anti-government Gezi Park...
35 percent of Syrian children in Turkey unable to attend school: report
A recent report by the Turkish Ministry of Education has revealed that 35 percent of Syrian refugee children living in Turkey were not attending...
Erdoğan says will approve reinstatement of death penalty if passed by parliament
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has brought the reinstatement of the death penalty back to Turkey’s agenda just like he does during almost every...
Turkish journalist receives sentence on charges of insulting security forces
Journalist Merdan Yanardağ was sentenced to more than a year in prison on Thursday for publicly insulting the state’s security forces, the Deutsche Welle (DW) Turkish...
Turkey’s top court follows ECtHR ruling, finds uploading correspondence to judicial network server violates...
A week after a decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Turkey’s top court has ruled that uploading correspondence onto the...
European rights court orders Turkey to compensate citizen held in police custody when he...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Turkey to pay compensation to a Turkish citizen who was taken into police custody when...
Wife of slain Turkish far-right leader refuses to attend hearing, says she has lost...
The wife of Sinan Ateş, a former far-right nationalist leader assassinated in 2022, has chosen not to attend a hearing on Wednesday, where eight...
Migration experts say anti-migrant sentiment in Turkey has reached a tipping point
Migration experts have said anti-migrant sentiment among the Turkish public has reached a tipping point and could result in a pogrom.
Lawyer Ayşegül Karpuz and...
Court declines to sentence Turkish journalists in MİT trucks case
A Turkish court has declined to sentence former Cumhuriyet newspaper Ankara representative Erdem Gül and opposition deputy and former editor-in-chief Enis Berberoğlu in the...
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