Category: Human Rights
A man holds a picture of Selahattin Demirtaş as people gather outside Bakirkoy courthouse in Istanbul on January 12, 2018 in support of the jailed co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). AFP PHOTO / ...
The Associated Press ISTANBUL — Two reporters for the U.S.-based Bloomberg news agency appeared in court on Friday accused of trying to undermine Turkey’s economic stability with a story they wrote on last year’s currency ...
Gültekin Avcı Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit, was detained on Saturday due to an appeal from a prosecutor, one day after being released pending trial by a Turkish court, according to ...
Muhammed Koşar and his family. PHOTO: Sevinç Özarslan A 46-year-old disabled teacher who was removed from his job due to alleged links to the Gülen movement was sent to jail after an appeals court upheld ...
A Turkish teacher said three unidentified men tried to abduct him in Ankara as he was about to get into his car but that they fled after he started shouting and managed to attract a ...
Former member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan. PHOTO: Cumhuriyet A panel of five judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Monday rejected Turkey’s request to refer to the court’s Grand Chamber ...
PHOTO: Kathimerini The Turkish gendarmerie on Thursday detained nine people who are being sought by prosecutors for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement on their way to Greece via the Evros River, according to ...
Veli Saçılık Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest in Ankara against the Turkish government’s removal from office ...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has sentenced the leader of the Istanbul branch of Turkey’s main opposition party to nearly 10 years in prison over a series of tweets. Anadolu ...
On the 10th day of his controversial appointment by the Turkish government as trustee of the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin, Mustafa Yaman, the province’s former governor, fired 150 workers from their jobs, the Mezopotamya ...
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