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PEN declares jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş an ‘honorary member’

PEN Center Germany, part of PEN International, has declared jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for two years, an...

Top Turkish court upholds jail sentence given to former HDP deputy Baluken

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a jail sentence of seven-and-a-half years handed down to former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris...

HDP co-chairperson and 10 deputies go on hunger strike to support jailed deputy

Co-chairperson of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Pervin Buldan announced on Monday that she and 10 other deputies from her party would go on...

6 human rights defenders and politicians arrested on terrorism charges

Six human rights activists and politicians who were detained along with others during police operations in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya on Tuesday...

HDP says Erdoğan pressure caused court to rule against Demirtaş release

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said a Turkish court that ruled on Friday not to release former HDP co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş from...

Local court rejects Demirtaş’s appeal for release despite ECtHR ruling

The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a request for release filed by Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş which was based on a...

Erdoğan’s office demands opposition leaders, deputies be stripped of immunity

The office of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday demanded that the country’s parliament strip immunity from the leaders of the main and...

Turkish police detain 14 HDP officials, union members over alleged PKK ties

Turkish police on Monday detained 14 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) officials and members of the Health and Social Workers Union in Ankara over their...

Prosecutor asks for aggravated life sentence for dismissed Kurdish mayor

A Turkish prosecutor on Friday demanded an aggravated life sentence for the dismissed co-mayor of Nusaybin in southeastern Turkey on charges of terrorism. Sara Kaya,...

Erdoğan says Turkey not bound by European court’s ruling to release Demirtaş

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday said that Turkey is not bound by verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) following the...

European court rules Demirtaş’s lengthy pretrial detention unjustified

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday urged Turkey to swiftly process the legal case of the ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish opposition,...

Turkish opposition files criminal complaint over irregularities reported by Court of Accounts

Canan Kaftancıoğlu, the İstanbul provincial chairman of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has filed a criminal complaint against the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) and...

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