Category: Politics
La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) a sévèrement condamné, mardi 13 avril, la Turquie pour la détention du journaliste et écrivain turc Ahmet Altan, poursuivi pour son implication présumée dans le putsch manqué du ...
Ahmet Altan The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey had violated the right to liberty and security as well as the right to freedom of expression and the right to ...
Syriac organizations in Europe have demanded that the Turkish government release and drop all charges against priest Sefer (Aho) Bileçen, who was handed down a 25-month prison sentence on charges of aiding the outlawed Kurdistan ...
KURDISH journalist Beritan Canozer has hit out after saying she was “unlawfully detained” for four days in Turkey last week after covering a demonstration held last November opposing violence against women. She spoke to the ...
France’s Europe Minister Clement Beaune said Sunday that Turkey had set a “trap” for European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen by forcing her to sit off to the side on a visit to Ankara, ...
A report recently released by a Brussels-based human rights monitor has pointed to the political motivation behind a mass detention campaign that has systematically targeted real and alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement in ...
Students who have been convicted for a prison term of more than six months — or for insulting Erdogan— will be unable to stay in dormitories A surprise amendment to the regulation of dormitory services ...
Alleging the insult of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Mudanya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the installation of billboards in Bursa’s Mudanya district that question $128 billion claimed by the opposition to have been ...
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in March included 182 deaths and 371 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 233 of them taking place in prisons, a report drafted by Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a lawmaker ...
The unpredictable roller coaster that has become Turkish politics was on full display this past week after 104 retired admirals publicly challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an open letter — and 10 of them ...