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ECtHR finds Turkey violated lawyer Demir’s rights to access information in prison

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday fined Turkey over the local prison administration’s refusal to grant a request for access to...

Teacher allegedly subjected to torture, inhumane treatment at Turkish detention center

A teacher who was detained in January 2017 was allegedly subjected for a month to torture including beatings, strip searches and threats of sexual...

Turkey arrests 39 people for social media activities in one week

Authorities detained 39 people for their social media posts in the first week of February, the Turkish Interior Ministry said today in a statement on...

Turkish defense companies’ commitment to transparency is ‘very low’: Defense Companies Index

Four defense companies from Turkey received failing grades in the Defence Companies Index on Anti-Corruption and Corporate Transparency (DCI) published today by Transparency International...

Opposition says Erdoğan seeking to acquire more power through new constitution

Cevheri Güven Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently hinted at the possibility of drafting a new constitution, prompting various interpretations on the part of the...

US senators urge Biden administration to press Turkey on human rights record in bipartisan letter

US Senators Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, and Florida Republican Marco Rubio, today urged the new Biden administration to press the Turkish government...

Turkish gov’t imposes record number of advertising bans on opposition newspapers in 2020

Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, in 2020 imposed 88 percent of its...

Altan’s magic is stronger than Turkish prison walls: Italian journalist Saviano

In an open letter published by Corriere della Sera, Italian journalist and writer Roberto Saviano said Turkish authorities’ refusal to release Ahmet Altan, a prominent...

56 former officers and an active duty officer face detention warrants over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 57 former military officers as well as one still on active duty over their alleged links to...

Complaints about public institutions in Turkey surged by 330 pct in 2020

The Turkish Ombudsman, which looks into complaints regarding the delivery of public services in the country, received more than 90,000 complaints in 2020, a...

Academic labeled by Erdoğan as provocateur says Boğaziçi students are smart, can’t be provoked

A professor at Turkey's embattled Boğaziçi University whom President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan referred to as "one of the provocateurs" instigating protests against the appointment...

Bayraktar Akıncı: a milestone in Turkey’s drone offensive

Cevheri Güven After a crisis with the US that resulted in the removal of Turkey from the F-35 joint strike fighter program and the cancelation...

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