Tag: Rule of Law
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, deputy, in parliament. Kemal Gökçe, a former teacher who was dismissed on allegations of terrorism from his job after a 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, was denied his claim to inherit his ...
Cumhuriyet chairman Akin Atalay hugs his friends after being released from Silivri prison in front of the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper’s headquarters in Istanbul on April 26, 2018. A Turkish court on April 25 convicted journalists ...
© Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg The updated Volkswagen AG (VW) logo sits on an automobile during a preview event ahead of its world premiere at the VW Group night ahead at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in ...
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul deputy Mustafa Yeneroğlu, who has recently been publicly criticizing the policies of his party, has said Turkey has gone outside the law in the trials of followers of ...
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 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 ...