Category: Human Rights
Renowned Turkish actress Berna Laçin has been summoned by a prosecutor to testify due to remarks on social media complaining about the high price of cherries. Laçin, a critic of the ruling Justice and Development ...
A Turkish court has sentenced a German-Kurdish singer in absentia to three years, one month and 15 days in prison on a conviction of supporting terrorism in Turkey, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Tuesday. ...
The Turkish government is working to increase the capacity of its prisons to 500,000 by 2024, said Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights defender and deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the Stockholm Center ...
KURDISH women’s rights activists branded a 30-year jail sentence handed to Free Women’s Movement (TJA) chairwoman Ayse Gokkan by a Turkish court an “attack on all women fighting for freedom” today. In an appeal for international solidarity, ...
The Turkish Interior Ministry has filed a lawsuit for damages in the amount of $290,823 against the family of Fikri Demirbaş, who died in an accident involving a military vehicle in southeastern Diyarbakır province in ...
The European Commission in its yearly report on Turkey released on Tuesday said backsliding in the respect for democracy, human and fundamental rights and the Turkish judicial system continued, underlining serious deficiencies in the functioning ...
The Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) said on October 14, in presenting an expert opinion in a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), that the overly broad and vague wording of ...
A deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has called for the immediate release of Ayşe Özdoğan, a critically ill woman who suffers from a rare form of cancer and was sent to prison ...
Notorious Turkish mob boss Sedat Peker has alleged in a series of tweets that SADAT, a paramilitary group linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, could possibly carry out assassinations of dissidents living in Turkey and ...
A court in the province of Bitlis convicted journalist Sinan Aygül of disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization because of an interview he published on the Bitlis Haber news website, where he is the ...
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