Tag: Rule of Law
Canan Ş., one of the thousands of teachers who were fired by the Turkish government due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide in the western province of Denizli on Monday, Turkish ...
The Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released its Global Peace Index 2019 yesterday (June 12). The thirteenth edition of the Global Peace Index has ranked 163 states and territories according to their level ...
Over 13 million Turkish citizens, roughly 15 percent of the entire population, were the subjects of prosecution in 2018, amounting to an increase of 5 million cases since 2011, Milli Gazete reported on Monday. According ...
PHOTO: AFP Turkish police intervened in a political gathering in İstanbul on Sunday and confiscated flyers about allegedly extravagant spending in the İstanbul Municipality, saying they constitute the crime of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ...
‘It has become a witch hunt’ … Elif Shafak. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Prosecutors target authors whose fiction tackles difficult subjects such as child abuse and sexual violence Turkish prosecutors have launched investigations into ...
AFP PHOTOS President Donald Trump has thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the release of a Turkish-American scientist imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years, adding laster that he would soon be in the ...
David Greene talks to a Turkish military officer about why he was forced to flee to the United States shortly after the alleged coup attempt in Turkey in 2016. DAVID GREENE, HOST: I was in ...
The commission criticised the move to annul the mayoral vote in Istanbul in March won by the opposition after 25 years of rule by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party and its Islamist predecessors. ...
GENEVA (Reuters) – Turkey must release two men detained over suspected links to a cleric blamed for a 2016 coup attempt and pay them compensation for arbitrary detention, a U.N. body said on Wednesday. Academic ...
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If Turkey can hang on to the remaining threads of its democracy and the fractured political opposition can organise itself effectively, it might not bode well for the future of president Erdogan and his ruling ...