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Imprisoned Turkish musician on death fast calls for justice

İbrahim Gökçek, jailed Turkish musician and a member of the leftist Grup Yorum band, gave an interview from his prison cell to the Cumhuriyet newspaper in...

State of emergency measures still haunt Turkey on 3rd anniversary of failed coup

Thousands of people who have been removed from their posts or jailed during a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a failed coup in...

Families still seek justice 7 years after Uludere tragedy

Although seven years have passed since the killing of 34 people near the Uludere district of Şırnak province in southeastern Turkey in a bombardment...

Turkish man jailed for 5 years acquitted after court fails to locate secret witnesses

Abdurrahim Dalmış, who was arrested in 2010 and held in pretrial detention for five on terrorism charges, was acquitted by a court that announced...

70-year-old man jailed over Gülen links begs for justice in letter from prison

Seventy-year-old Alaattin Gökhan, who has been behind bars for 800 days due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, desperately calls for justice to...

Saturday Mothers ask for appointment with Turkish president

The Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives who have been seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody...

[UPDATED] Turkish actor Atay released after a brief detention due to critical tweet

Turkish actor Barış Atay, known for his critical views of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government, was detained by police on Wednesday morning...

Upper courts reject appeals to release journalists Altan and Alpay

Two upper courts in Istanbul have rejected a demand for release filed by lawyers representing Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay despite a decision by...

CHP begins ‘March of Justice’ in protest of deputy’s arrest

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Thursday kicked off a "March of Justice" from Turkey's capital of Ankara to İstanbul in protest...

[OPINION] Turkey’s crackdown on lawyers takes a toll

by Abdullah Bozkurt The unprecedented crackdown on lawyers who defend critics, dissidents and opponents of the authoritarian regime of Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, paint...

Top court head: Justice does not require everyone be treated equally in every situation

The president of Turkey's Constitutional Court, Zühtü Arslan, has said justice does not necessarily require that everyone in society be treated equally in every...

ENJC suspends Turkey’s HSYK for noncompliance with judicial standards

The European Networks of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) has suspended the observer status of Turkey's Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) and...

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