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ECtHR faults Turkey for preventing 22 from attending demonstration in 2012
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the right to liberty and security and freedom of assembly and association...
3 women detained by police acting without a warrant for attending demonstration
Turkish police on Wednesday detained three women, whose identities were not disclosed, during a raid on their homes in Istanbul, despite not having a...
Members of anti-gov’t foundation face police intervention, detention at protests
Turkish police used force to disrupt protests staged by members of the Furkan Foundation, an anti-government religious group, in three cities across Turkey over...
Human rights organizations issue statement calling for acquittal of participants in Saturday Mothers protest
A total of 18 human rights organizations called on authorities in a joint statement to acquit 46 defendants who appeared in court on Thursday...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels hold sit-ins demanding Ankara pay their salaries: monitor
Fighters from the Syrian National Army, a
Turkish-backed rebel group in northern Syria, have been holding sit-in
demonstrations for two days, demanding that Ankara pay their...
Turkish police briefly detain 50 members of anti-gov’t religious group
Turkish police used disproportionate
force on Tuesday against members of a religious group, known as the Furkan
Foundation, who had gathered in Sıhhıye Square in Ankara,...
Women gathered in İstanbul for ‘elimination of violence day’ dispersed with pepper spray, plastic bullets
İstanbul police on Monday evening dispersed women who
gathered to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against
Women, using pepper spray and plastic...
İstanbul Municipality workers demonstrate against opposition candidate İmamoğlu
Employees of the
İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality on Wednesday held a demonstration in protest
of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition candidate for İstanbul mayor, accusing him of
conducting a...
24 İstanbul airport workers arrested for protesting unsafe labor conditions
Twenty-four workers who were detained along with hundreds of others on Saturday for protesting labor conditions at İstanbul’s new airport were put in pre-trial...