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ECtHR to announce judgment on jailed author and journalist Altan 4 years after his application

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will on Tuesday announce its judgment in the case of jailed author and journalist Ahmet Altan, four...

Turkey issued detention warrants for 123 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 123 people including doctors, lawyers, academics, active duty and dismissed military officers and...

Turkish authorities arrest 6 women’s rights activists in Diyarbakır

Six women’s rights activists who were among 26 detained in a police raid on the Rosa Women's Association in southeastern Diyarbakır province on April...

Mass detentions of Gülen movement followers since 2014 ‘politically motivated’: report

A report recently released by a Brussels-based human rights monitor has pointed to the political motivation behind a mass detention campaign that has systematically...

Chinese wolf-warriors meet their match in Turkey with municipal trench at embassy gate

Turkey's nationalist opposition has responded to a belligerent attitude from Beijing with workers from the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality digging a giant hole outside the...

English PEN launches campaign to send solidarity letters to Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader

English PEN, one of the world's oldest human rights organizations that champions the freedom to write and the freedom to read, has launched a...

Erdoğan’s iron fist: Turkey since failed 2016 coup

As Turkey jails 32 former soldiers in the last mass trial stemming from the failed 2016 coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, we look...

Turkey continued to punish dissent in 2020: Amnesty annual report

Turkey continued to apply broadly defined anti-terrorism laws to punish acts protected under international human rights law in 2020, disregarding fair trial guarantees and...

5,000 Boğaziçi University alumni call on pro-gov’t rector Bulu to resign

A total of 5,000 graduates of İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University have jointly called on new rector Melih Bulu, a member of the ruling Justice...

Opinion polls stop HDP closure case

Cevheri Güven Sources close to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have said that opinion polls presented to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prompted him...

EU chiefs express deep concerns on rights in Turkey to Erdoğan

The European Union's top two officials said Tuesday they expressed deep concerns about human rights in Turkey in their first meeting in a year...

Erdoğan ally renews call to shut down Turkey’s top court

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's far-right ally, renewed his call to shut down Turkey's Constitutional Court on...

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