ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan was released from prison on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after the top appeals court overturned a verdict against him following a ruling by a European court that ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan resorted to discriminatory language when criticizing the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) during a speech at the Union of International Democrats (UID) Women’s and Youth Committee, Turkish media reported. “We ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on April 13 ruled that Turkey violated prominent novelist Ahmet Altan’s several rights, including his right to liberty and security. The court, however, by six votes to one, ...
The neighbourhood teahouse is a focus of daily life across Turkey, an Ottoman tradition that has endured through the centuries. At the Red Lightning teahouse in Çorum, the enterprising owners have one foot in the past ...
CAIRO – For Ramadan this year, Magdy Hafez has been longing to reclaim a cherished ritual: performing the night-time group prayers called taraweeh at the mosque once again. Last year, the coronavirus upended the 68-year-old Egyptian’s ...
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 ...
It once seemed relatively uncontroversial: a 25-page document meant to reduce violence against women across Europe. But a decade later, the initiative, known as the Istanbul Convention, has unexpectedly become a proxy fight for the ...
More compelling evidence has been uncovered from trials that cast further doubt on the Turkish government’s narrative of a 2016 botched coup attempt, lending further credence to the claim that the failed putschist bid was ...