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Turkish court acquits 12 over attack on outspoken fashion designer

A Turkish court on Friday acquitted 12 of 13 suspects who stood trial for a mob attack on Barbaros Şansal, one of Turkey's most...

Greece to expel Turkish-Armenian writer

A Greek court has ordered the release of a Turkish-Armenian writer on condition that he leave the country within two weeks, Agence-France Presse reported...

Court rules to release 2 student protestors from pretrial detention

A court on Friday ruled to release two university students who have been in pretrial detention for more than three months for participating in...

Family of late controversial figure offers €1 mln to anyone proving links to banned group

The family of Taner Ay, a controversial figure who recently died in a traffic accident, has denied his links to Osmanen Germania -- a...

Former pro-Kurdish party MP released after 5 years in prison

Abdullah Zeydan, a former lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was released from prison in an ongoing retrial after an appeals court...

Top court orders gov’t to compensate outlets over ban on access to publications

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of seven opposition media outlets, the access to whose reports and a column was blocked, ordering the...

Peace academic says top court was ‘too little, too late’ to find rights violation in his case

One of the academics who were fired for signing a peace declaration in 2016 has said a decision by Turkey’s Constitutional Court, which ruled...

Erdoğan courts Turkey’s evasive youth vote ahead of 2023

Yusuf Ziya Güler is one of nearly seven million Turks who grew up with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as their only leader and who can...

Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Turkey: 2021 in Review

Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment in custody over the past six years and especially since a coup attempt on...

Pro-gov’t daily owner admits to blaming failed coup on Gülenists without any evidence

The chairman of Albayrak Holding, which owns the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily, has admitted that his paper released news reports blaming the Gülen movement...

Former military cadets severely beaten by guards in Turkey’s Silivri Prison

Former military cadets who are incarcerated in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey in July 2016 were...

5 journalists who reported on villagers tortured and thrown from helicopter acquitted

A Turkish court has ruled to acquit five journalists who were indicted on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for reporting on an...

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