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ECtHR faults Turkey for violating former judge’s right to freedom of expression

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in the case of former judge İbrahim Kozan that sharing an article criticizing government actions...

Opposition bloc vows to re-establish parliamentary democracy in Turkey

The leaders of six Turkish opposition parties on Monday pledged to bring back parliamentary democracy to the country and scrap the executive presidential system...

Turkey recognizes Russia-Ukraine ‘war’, may block warships

Turkey on Sunday officially recognized Russia's attacks on Ukraine as a "state of war" and said it was implementing an international treaty giving Ankara...

13 students subjected to mistreatment in Bursa police custody: report

Thirteen students who were detained due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement were allegedly subjected to mistreatment while in police custody in...

Turkey hasn’t shown much improvement in human rights within past year: EP rapporteur

Nacho Sánchez Amor, an MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, said there hasn’t been...

Turkey starts evacuation of citizens from Kyiv

The Turkish government has begun to evacuate Turkish citizens stranded at Turkey’s embassy in Kyiv due to escalating fighting between Russian troops and the...

Turkey mulls barring Russian warships from transiting the straits: FM

Turkey is considering whether or not to prevent the passage of Russian warships through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits in accordance with the 1936...

Authoritarian trends consolidated, rule of law has further deteriorated in Turkey: German think tank

Authoritarian trends observed in Turkey in the last decade have been consolidated, while the rule of law has further deteriorated in the country, according...

Demirtaş’s prison sentence for insulting Erdoğan upheld by appeals court

An appeals court has upheld a prison sentence of three-and-a-half years handed down to Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples'...

Turkey ranks 107th among 177 countries in Index of Economic Freedom

Turkey has been ranked 107th among 177 countries, dropping 31 places since last year, in the Washington-based Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of Economic Freedom,...

TurkStat’s inflation figures reflect ‘dishonesty’ by Erdoğan and his ‘yes-men,’ economist says

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, has said that recent inflation figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat)...

Jailed businessman Kavala awarded human rights prize in Germany

The Society of Friends and Supporters of the Tonhalle has awarded the Tonhalle Human Rights Prize for 2022 to prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman...

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