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Turkey aiming to increase capacity of its prisons to 500,000 by 2024, says opposition MP

The Turkish government is working to increase the capacity of its prisons to 500,000 by 2024, said Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights defender...

Counterterrorism measures increasingly diverging from human rights standards, UN special rapporteur warns

Efforts to improve counterterrorism measures around the world are damaging human rights and the rule of law, a UN expert told the UN General Assembly,...

Political prisoners considered ‘dangerous inmates’ in Turkey’s jails

Cevheri Güven According to data released by Turkey’s Justice Ministry, a total of 1,576,566 people faced terrorism-related investigations between 2016 and 2020. Among those jailed...

Turkey cannot be considered a safe country for migrants and asylum seekers, says MEP Tineke Strik

Member of the European Parliament Tineke Strik said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom that Turkey cannot be considered a safe...

Famous Turkish actress summoned by prosecutor due to comment about high price of cherries

Renowned Turkish actress Berna Laçin has been summoned by a prosecutor to testify due to remarks on social media complaining about the high price...

Erdoğan’s budget proposes 14 pct increase in his salary: opposition MP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has proposed a 14.4 percent salary increase for himself in a draft budget submitted to parliament for approval, the...

Turkish court sentences German-Kurdish singer in absentia to 3 years for terrorism

A Turkish court has sentenced a German-Kurdish singer in absentia to three years, one month and 15 days in prison on a conviction of...

Turkish woman with COVID-19 made to appear before judge in hazmat suit

Turkish authorities made a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 appear before a judge in Bursa province in a hazmat suit on October 14,...

Opposition leader warns bureaucrats against obeying unlawful orders from gov’t

Turkey’s main opposition party leader on Saturday urged bureaucrats not to abide by unlawful orders from the ruling party in the wake of a...

Half of Turkish electorate says Erdoğan will not win another presidential race: survey

According to the results of a recent opinion poll, 49.8 percent of voters said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will not win another presidential...

Journalist Sinan Aygül convicted of spreading terrorist propaganda for publishing an interview

A court in the province of Bitlis convicted journalist Sinan Aygül of disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization because of an interview he...

Former HDP deputy sentenced to 20 months for spreading ‘terrorist propaganda’

A court in the Turkish province of Van on Friday sentenced Aysel Tuğluk, the former deputy co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),...

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