Trial kicks off with a record number of journalists as suspects
In one of the most important press freedom cases in Turkey, 29 journalists, most are in pre-trial detention for eight months without a trial...
Suspicious deaths and suicides on the rise in Turkey with 54 people in last...
Against the background of massive crackdown on critics and opponents in Turkey and widespread torture practices in detentions and prisons, 54 people were reported...
Dutch journalist filed complaint against threats from Turkey
A Dutch journalist of Turkish origin who has been targeted by threats originating from Turkey prompted authorities in the Netherlands to take security measures.
Basri...
Jailed journalist denied access to case file on account of saving trees
Turkish prison officials refused to provide a print copy of indictment and evidentiary case file to a veteran journalist who has been jailed in...
Dutch-Turkish journalist faces death threats by Erdogan’s fanatics
A Dutch journalist of Turkish origin has faced a systematic campaign of threats including death by what appears to be fans of Turkey's autocratic...
Erdogan ally cleric says Turkey must acquire WMDs to deter West
Hayrettin Karaman, a leading theologian that is known as chief fatwa (religious edict) issuer for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice...
CoE’s Venice Commission: Turkey’s constitutional amendments dangerous step backwards
Pointing at “the substance of the proposed constitutional amendments represents a dangerous step backwards in the constitutional democratic tradition of Turkey,” the Council of...
Exiled Turkish lawyers blast Turkish Bar Association for its silence
An advocacy group set up by exiled Turkish lawyers has decried the silence of Turkish Bar Association (TBB) in the face of massive crackdown...
Tale of jailed academic exposes the absence of the rule of law in Turkey
Among thousands of academics who were dismissed and/or arrested with false charges under Turkey’s abusive anti-terror laws, a terrible ordeal of 26-year old research...
Turkey gov’t systematically jails women in persecution of critics
As part of escalating crackdown on dissent and criticism which landed almost 50,000 people in jail in the last six months alone, Turkish government...
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Throughout the year human rights organizations...
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