Category: Human Rights
Pro-government media outlets have unleashed a flurry of attacks and insults on famous Turkish pop singer Sezen Aksu after she publicly objected the quarrying activities of a pro-government company in northern Turkey, Turkish Minute reported. ...
Turkey jailed one of its the best and brightest lieutenants who was on his way to becoming a top-gun combat pilot after receiving multiple awards from the US Air Force for his excellent performance in ...
A lawmaker from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as well as Turkey’s Gendarmerie General Command have recently issued statements denying accusations made by Turkish mob boss Sedat Peker, who had claimed that they ...
Abdulvahit Tuncay, a former police officer who was fired in the aftermath of a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016 and was subsequently jailed, has died of cancer after his belated release from prison, the ...
Turkey remains one the world’s top jailers of journalists, writers and intellectuals, according to recent indexes and reports released by prominent right organizations. Turkey, along with China and Saudi Arabia, topped PEN America’s list of ...
Nursena Küçüközyiğit, the daughter of a former Turkish bureaucrat who has been missing since late last year, has filed an application at the European Court of Human Rights requesting an interim measure concerning her father’s ...
Mehmet Dersulu, a former teacher dismissed from his job by an executive decree after a coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, was beaten by guards in prison on April 29, his sister Zehra Dersulu ...
Journalism in Turkey has become synonymous with death, arrest, joblessness and many other risks, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) vice chair Tayip Temel said on Monday in a statement on the occasion of World Press ...
An ailing 83-year-old man in southeastern Diyarbakır Prison has been given a medical report saying he is fit to remain in prison despite a previous medical report stating otherwise, the Mezopotamya News Agency (MA) reported. ...
Two young people were briefly detained, handcuffed and released on judicial probation including a travel ban for allegedly insulting the value of the Turkish passport in a TikTok video, Turkish Minute reported. On April 25, ...
