Tag: Rule of Law
Gültekin Avcı Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit, was detained on Saturday due to an appeal from a prosecutor, one day after being released pending trial by a Turkish court, according to ...
US Department of State building. The US Department of State on Thursday updated its travel advisory on Turkey, urging increased caution due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions. “Updated Turkey Travel Advisory was published last night. ...
Turkish rappers on Friday released two new songs criticizing the Turkish government and urging the public, especially young people, to raise their voices against political and social injustice as well as human and animal rights ...
ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday sharply criticised Turkish lawyers who boycotted a judicial ceremony on the grounds of his presidential palace, saying their method of electing bar association members should be changed. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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‘The challenge ahead is huge.’ Ekrem İmamoğlu, mayor of Istanbul, and supporters at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, July 2019. Photograph: Burhan Özbilici/AP The political awakening of the Istanbul mayoral election is ...