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Turkish court releases rights activist after 5 months behind bars

Acun Karadağ, a rights activist and teacher who was fired following a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016, was released from prison on...

Ailing inmate says can’t access healthcare, confined to filthy quarantine cell

Miktad Doğan, 30, an inmate in pretrial detention suffering from a serious liver disease, said he was belatedly taken to the hospital and made...

Purged academic’s appeal rejected by OHAL Commission based on nonexistent document

Academic and journalist Mehmet Altan’s appeal for reinstatement to his job at Istanbul University was rejected by a commission reviewing decisions taken by the...

9-month-old infant forced to accompany mother in prison quarantine cell

A 9-month-old baby has been required to accompany her mother, Yasemin Melizci, 29, in a prison quarantine cell, sparking criticism from human rights activists,...

Turkey’s top appeals court discussed Gülen movement-related cases with ECtHR officials, judicial records reveal

A decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has revealed that the judges of one of the court’s chambers met with their counterparts at...

8 people face up to 15 years in prison for aiding families of post-coup victims

An indictment drafted by Turkish prosecutors seeks a prison sentence of between seven-and-a-half and 15 years for eight people who were arrested in the...

Turkey’s post-coup crackdown leaves 2 more children separated from parents

Ekrem, a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler, and his four-year-old sister Zülal became separated from not just one but both their parents when their mother was arrested...

ECtHR rules Turkey violated rights of famous singer jailed on terrorism charges

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a famous singer and columnist who was jailed for 14 months in...

Purge victim reinstated to teaching job after his death

A teacher who was fired by a government decree in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016 was reinstated two...

Turkish police conduct raids to detain 37 over ByLock use

Police teams conducted raids on 26 locations on Friday morning in an effort to detain 37 people due to their alleged use of the...

Vague terrorism charge used to target supporters of the Gülen movement: UN special rapporteurs

The vague and imprecise charge of “membership in an armed terrorist organization” appears to be repeatedly misused to target critics of the Turkish government’s...

ECtHR urges Albania not to deport Gülen follower to Turkey

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg sent an official request to Albania asking it not to deport a Turkish citizen who...

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