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Turkey has largest number of cases pending before European rights court
Approximately 20,100 applications from Turkey are pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), making it the highest case-count country since Aug. 1,...
Turkey tops list of countries with cases pending before European rights court
According to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) statistics, 26.3 percent of applications pending before the court as of October 31, 2022 had come from...
Former minister warns ECtHR could cancel top Turkish court’s standing as domestic remedy
A former Turkish justice minister has warned that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) might cancel the standing as a domestic remedy of...
Solidarity festival in Cologne focuses on human rights violations in Turkey
A number of Turkish rights activists addressed the issue of human rights violations in Turkey, with an emphasis on political prisoners, during the 3rd...
Turkey’s top court received 430K petitions claiming rights violations in last 10 years
Turkey’s Constitutional Court received 428,554 individual applications between 2012 and June 30 of this year, with some 70 percent of them concerning violations of...
Hundreds gather at ECtHR to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Bünyamin Tekin, StrasbourgHundreds of activists and victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown, joined by former leader of the UK's Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and EU...
ECtHR ought to act in response to Turkey’s post-coup crackdown, Jeremy Corbyn says
Bünyamin Tekin, StrasbourgThe former leader of the UK's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who currently serves as a member of the British parliament, has described...
Turkey sees record increase in number of prisons, rights violations under AKP rule
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has built more than 200 prisons in the past 16 years and continues to allocate large funds...
Turkey’s Justice Ministry to ask prison administrations about widespread torture claims
A special team assembled upon the orders of Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ will be asking prison administrations in the country about the widespread...
Minority and Refugee Rights in Turkey: 2021 in Review
Minorities and refugees in Turkey continued to suffer from rights violations, hate speech and attacks throughout the year. President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his...
Father of 4 imprisoned on Gülen links says he hasn’t seen his family for more than 2 years
Erkam Özkaya, a father of four arrested for links to the Gülen movement, said he hadn’t seen his family for more than two years...
Turkey’s top court finds no rights violation in case of dismissed public servants Gülmen and Özakça
The Turkish Constitutional Court found no rights violations in the case of academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, both of whom were fired...