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Amnesty’s annual report condemns ongoing human rights violations in Turkey

Amnesty International’s 2024-2025 report, published on Tuesday, said human rights violations continued in Turkey and emphasized the ongoing lack of judicial independence, the Stockholm Center...

Jailed Swedish journalist petitions Turkey’s top court over alleged rights violations

Lawyers for Joakim Medin, a Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey, have filed an individual application with the country’s Constitutional Court claiming multiple violations of...

Rights groups cite genocide convention in call for Ankara to stop ship carrying F-35 cargo to Israel

Two Turkish rights groups said on Monday that they had filed a criminal complaint demanding the halt of a ship carrying F-35 fighter jet...

ECtHR finds no rights violation in Turkish prisoner’s denied access to internet printouts

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled by a 4-3 majority that Turkish prison authorities’ refusal to deliver internet printouts and photocopied...

Jailed far-right politician denies insulting Erdoğan in first hearing of his trial

The trial of Ümit Özdağ, leader of Turkey’s far-right Victory Party (ZP), began in an İstanbul court on Tuesday, where the controversial politician denied...

France tries Syrian rebel ex-spokesman who operated from Turkey for war crimes

A former spokesman for a Syrian Islamist rebel group who operated from Turkey went on trial in France on Tuesday, accused of complicity in...

92 detained in İstanbul ahead of May Day demonstrations

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has announced that police detained 92 people across İstanbul on Tuesday in a preemptive operation ahead of May...

Erdoğan says 4 million migrants reside in Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that Turkey is currently home to 4.03 million migrants, including 2.76 million Syrians under temporary protection status, the...

Journalist under house arrest over role in Gezi protests says he faces up to 20 years in prison

Journalist İsmail Saymaz broke his 38-day silence since he was put under house arrest last month as part of an investigation into the 2013...

Turkish state broadcaster reporter faces backlash for endorsing assassination of political opponents

A reporter for Turkey’s state broadcaster has been facing public backlash after he posted a comment on social media platform X seemingly endorsing the...

UN special rapporteur warns ECtHR that Turkey’s broad counterterrorism laws risk arbitrary prosecutions

A United Nations human rights expert has warned Europe’s top human rights court that Turkey’s vague counterterrorism laws violate the international principle of legality,...

Man, 2 daughters killed in landslide at car wash in northern Turkey

A man and his two young daughters were killed and their mother was injured when a landslide struck a car wash facility in Samsun,...

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