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İstanbul Bar Association faces probe for hanging banner commemorating lawyer who died on hunger strike

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's office has demanded the testimony of İstanbul Bar Association executives as part of an investigation into the hanging of...

Turkish soldiers tortured Kurdish villagers, threw them from helicopter, locals say

Turkish soldiers tortured two Kurdish villagers they had detained, throwing them from a helicopter after battering them, eyewitnesses claim. A medical report for one of...

Moody’s downgrades ratings for Turkey’s 8 largest companies

International credit rating agency Moody's downgraded the ratings on the eight largest non-financial corporates in Turkey after the downgrade of Turkey’s government bond ratings...

Turkey’s president launches new unit to wage information warfare

A new unit to counter “misinformation tactics waged against Turkey,” in Turkish authorities' words, will work under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country’s...

Turkey removes signs in Kurdish as racist attacks on Kurds surge

The trustee appointed by Ankara to replace the pro-Kurdish mayor of the eastern city of Van has substituted local placename signs in Kurdish with...

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,...

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...

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,...

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