2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (397+ words) Amnesty International has called on Turkish authorities to lift a 13-day ban on protests in Ankara and release people it described as arbitrarily detained ahead of the 36th NATO summit, as the number of people jailed pending trial in security operations…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (405+ words) Afghan migrants accused Turkish border forces of beating, robbing and abandoning them in freezing weather near the Iranian border, leaving 11 people with amputations and at least 20 others dead, according to a BBC Afghan Forensic investigation published by BBC's Turkish service,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (589+ words) Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that a former teacher's terrorism conviction violated his right to a fair trial because lower courts relied mainly on allegations that he used By Lock, an encrypted messaging app Turkish authorities link to the faith-based…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (578+ words) Turkey's European Union membership talks cannot resume without concrete democratic progress, the European Parliament's rapporteur on Turkey said at a Wednesday press conference. Nacho S'nchez Amor, the Spanish lawmaker who leads the European Parliament's reporting on Turkey, said the EU…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (724+ words) A European Parliament report scheduled for a vote on June 17 will urge the European Union to consider targeted human rights sanctions against Turkish Justice Minister Ak'n G'rlek over his role in politically sensitive prosecutions, Turkish Minute reported. Vladimir Prebili, a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (912+ words) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has said minorities in Turkey and Greece should not be treated as hostages to political disputes between the two countries, while expressing hope that a long-closed Greek Orthodox seminary in "stanbul could be allowed to reopen…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1268+ words) A Belgian appeals court has recognized a former teacher from Turkey as a refugee, ruling that his past ties to the faith-based G'len movement and Turkey's continuing crackdown on the group establish a risk of prosecution even when an applicant…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (261+ words) Stockholm Center for Freedom Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 78 people as part of an investigation into the alleged education network of the faith-based G'len movement, the TRT Haber state broadcaster reported. The operation was carried out under…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (306+ words) The Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled that a teacher who was barred from working under an emergency decree in the aftermath of a 2016 failed coup suffered rights violations after he was prevented from engaging in his profession for nearly three…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (551+ words) The European Court of Human Rights (ECt HR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of two Greek Orthodox priests by preventing them from serving on the boards of religious minority foundations in "stanbul, Turkish Minute reported. The Strasbourg court…...