Turkish court sentences 25 journalists to long prison terms over alleged links to Gülen...
An İstanbul high criminal court on Thursday gave prison sentences ranging from 25 months to seven years, six months to 25 journalists on terror...
Turkish rights defenders: Prosecutor’s office hiding facts of teacher’s death in custody
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists, rebuffed a statement made by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday...
UN slams Turkish government over widespread human rights violations
The United Nations’ annual human rights report, which was released in Geneva on Wednesday, has named Turkey as one of 50 countries in which human...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 121 women on Int’l Women’s Day over alleged...
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants on International Women’s Day for 121 women over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Turkish prosecutor seeks 15 years for widow of Gökhan Açıkkollu, tortured to death in...
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office is seeking a sentence of up to 15 years in prison for teacher Mümüne Açıkkollu, the widow of...
Turkish gov’t refuses to release woman jailed for alleged Gülen links despite risk of...
One of the more than 17,000 women who were jailed in Turkey in the aftermath of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016...
Turkish gov’t jails 43 women for charity sale to benefit purge victims in Mersin
The Turkish government on Tuesday arrested and jailed 43 out of 80 women, including high school and university students, who were allegedly subjected to torture...
Int’l bar associations urge Turkish gov’t to stop arbitrary detentions, torture
International bar associations have called on the UN Human Rights Council to urge the Turkish government to stop and remedy the arbitrary arrest, detention...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan gov’t attacks UN for raising rights violations in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
As the free world turns up the heat on the repressive regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey with increased vigilance...
42-year-old Gülen-linked cancer patient dies due to Turkish prison authorities’ negligence
Forty-two-year-old Deniz Hakan Şen, who was detained by Turkish police and later jailed by a court in October 2017 over alleged links to the...
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