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PACE co-rapporteurs ask for immediate release of human rights defenders

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom,...

2,000-year-old lion sculpture destroyed in Turkey’s Adıyaman province

A two-thousand-year-old lion sculpture at an ancient burial site dating back to the Kingdom of Commagene in Turkey’s Adıyaman province has been destroyed, the...

Erdoğan says courts will convict many in coup trials by end of 2017

Responding to questions from reporters about the slow prosecution of suspects in a failed coup last July, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on...

Justice Minister Bozdağ says 50,504 arrested since coup attempt

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Friday that since a failed coup attempt last July, 50,504 people have been arrested and 168,801 are...

Dutch gov’t says Turkish Deputy PM unwelcome in the Netherlands

A statement issued by the Dutch foreign ministry on Friday said the visit of Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş or another Turkish minister...

US ‘deeply concerned’ by detention of human rights defenders in Turkey

US Department of State Spokesperson Heather Nauert has said the United States is deeply concerned by the detention of human rights defenders from Amnesty...

‘March of Justice’ reaches İstanbul on its 23rd day

A “March of Justice” launched by Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on June 15 to protest the arrest of a CHP deputy...

Detained human rights defenders to remain in police custody for 7 days

Eight human rights activists who were detained during a digital security and information management workshop organized by Amnesty International (AI) in İstanbul on Wednesday...

Erdoğan says EP resolution advising freeze of talks not binding, of no value

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the approval of a resolution in the European Parliament (EP) that calls for the freezing of EU...

Deputies to face fine for use of word ‘Kurdistan’ in Parliament

Members of the Turkish Parliament will have to pay fines if they use the word "Kurdistan" in Parliament, according to proposed changes to the...

Sala prayers to be read in 90,000 mosques on anniversary of coup attempt

The first anniversary of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 is to be marked with sala prayers read in 90,000...

Jailed HDP Co-chair Demirtaş refuses to attend hearing in handcuffs

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November, refused to attend a court hearing on Friday when...

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