Category: Human Rights

A regional court of appeals in İstanbul has overturned the decision of a high criminal court that acquitted leading businessman and rights defender Osman Kavala and eight others of charges of instigating the anti-government Gezi ...

Turkey is accused of detaining Uyghur refugees for alleged ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and sending them to removal centers for deportation to China. According to the Gazete Duvar ...

Mesut Hakkı Caşın, the Turkish president’s advisor on security and foreign policy, openly threatened a Swedish-based Turkish journalist with murder on live TV, broadcast by a national television network, saying Turkish intelligence would find him ...

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has refused to file charges based on torture allegations made by Zabit Kişi, 48, who said he was tortured for more than three months after being abducted from Kazakhstan ...

Forty-two percent of news reports blocked in Turkey between November 2019 and October 2020 are related to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family and officials of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Free Web ...

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office issued a detention warrant for veteran journalist Cengiz Çandar on the charge of praising crime and criminals over a 2017 tweet mourning the death of a woman killed while ...

The father of Turkey’s best-known footballer, ex-international Hakan Şükür, has been given a prison sentence of three years, 45 days on charges of aiding a terrorist organization due to his alleged links to the Gülen ...

The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided that the right to life of Nigerian migrant Festus Okey, who was fatally shot by a police officer, was violated, Turkish media reported. According to the court Okey’s family ...

The father of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who went missing more than a year ago and is feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence, said their lives stopped the day his son went missing. Tunç’s ...