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The story of a lawyer in Turkey: all alone against the state

Viyan Zabel Kınalı, a 26-year-old attorney at law, is one of the hundreds of lawyers in Turkey whose licenses have been revoked in the...

South African rights advocates vow to defend cause of Turkey’s expelled MP

Türkmen Terzi  Prominent human rights advocates from South Africa promised at an online event to support Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish MP who was expelled...

1.5 million euros awarded to plaintiffs from Turkey by rights court in 2020

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Turkey to pay a total of 1,548,027 euros in awards to plaintiffs in 2020 after...

France says no place for Turkish Milli Görüş group which spurned charter

An influential Turkish religious association founded by the mentor of President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has no place in France as it goes against French...

Erdoğan sacked top banker for questioning sale of FX under son-in-law’s tenure: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dismissed Naci Ağbal as head of Turkey’s central bank just four months after his appointment because he was uneasy...

AKP bill requiring security investigation for state employment rejected by opposition

A 16-article bill proposed by Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) which stipulates that applicants be required to undergo a security investigation and...

Prosecution of murder of journalist Hrant Dink remains unsatisfactory: CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Turkish authorities to conduct an impartial and depoliticized investigation into the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist  Hrant Dink...

Exit from Istanbul Convention splits Turkey’s women’s rights activists

Turkey's contentious withdrawal from a treaty combating gender-based violence has had a sympathetic response from at least one quarter: a top women's group that...

Jailed Turkish academic hospitalized due to COVID-19

Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was jailed as part of a political crackdown on dissent in the wake...

Top court should be shut down over return of indictment seeking to ban HDP: Bahçeli

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's far-right ally, slammed a Wednesday decision by Turkey's Constitutional Court's (AYM) to...

ErdoÄŸan planning May visit to Nagorno-Karabakh

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan said on Wednesday he planned to visit Nagorno-Karabakh in May, a trip likely to further anger Armenia following its...

Turkey’s Ziraat Bank signs $400 mln credit deal with China Exim Bank

Turkish state lender Ziraat Bank has signed a $400 million loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China less than a week after the...

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