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60 jurists sign joint letter to address Turkey’s detention of lawyers

Sixty jurists issued a letter on the detention of dozens of lawyers in police raids on Tuesday. The letter is as follows: On the detention of...

Ankara’s detention of lawyers draws global outcry

International lawyers associations and rights groups have voiced concern over the recent detention of 60 lawyers by Ankara, saying they had been doing their...

ECtHR has let Turkey’s dissidents down, says jailed Kurdish leader

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed ex-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has said the ineptness of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...

İstanbul Bar Association warns of looming ‘dystopia’ over detention of 60 lawyers

The İstanbul Bar Association on Monday denounced the detention of 60 lawyers by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, saying that the lawyers cannot...

Ankara issues detention warrants for 60 lawyers accused of ‘terrorism under the guise of practicing law’

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 60 lawyers on terror charges. According to a statement released by the office,...

Turkish migrant left stranded by Greek border guards goes missing

A Turkish migrant who fled Ankara's crackdown on dissent disappeared just hours after Greek border guards left him stranded in the Evros River, Euronews...

Tortured, robbed and pushed back to Turkey, migrants face rogue force in Greece

A Turkish migrant who fled Ankara's crackdown on dissent has given a detailed account of push-back on Greek soil to Bold Medya, in a...

Moldova convicts ex-intel chief over illegal deportation of Turkish dissidents

Vasile Botnari, the former head of the Moldovan secret service, received a suspended sentence and a substantial fine over the rendition of seven Turkish...

Students strip-searched, maltreated during ECtHR president’s Turkey visit

Turkish police violated regulations and strip-searched 23 female university students detained on Aug. 31 during the visit to Turkey of European Court of Human...

Prosecution demands jail terms for journalists over reporting on Turkish black op in Libya

A prosecutor has demanded sentences ranging from eight to 19 years for journalists over their reports on a Turkish intelligence officer killed in Libya,...

Rights groups urge Turkey to release philanthropist jailed for ‘espionage’

Several rights groups have urged Turkey to immediately release Osman Kavala, a philanthropist and businessman jailed on espionage charges, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said...

‘Human tragedy’ unfolding in Turkish prisons, says jailed Kurdish leader

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), described the current situation in Turkey's prisons as a "human tragedy"...

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