Human rights versus Turkey – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn Human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. These are the founding principles that the Council of Europe ...
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Trial over massacre of Kurdish family once again adjourned
A Turkish court on Thursday once again adjourned the case regarding the 1993 massacre of a Kurdish family by security ...
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Medya News Daily Review: 20 January 2023
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said issues with Ankara's acquisition of F-16 modernisation kits would be resolved if US President ...
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Şenyaşar family “hospital massacre” trial begins four years on
The first hearing of a 2018 case known as the “hospital massacre”, regarding the killing of three members of the ...
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Appeals chamber rules mistrial in former Kurdish lawmaker’s case
An appeals chamber in Turkey has reversed the prison sentences of the imprisoned former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP and ...
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Terror charge upheld for Kurdish journalist who exposed police killing
An appeals court in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır (Amed) province has upheld a prison sentence of 1 year 6 months and ...
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If HDP is closed, no-one can say Turkey’s elections are fair”- MEP
The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) called on Turkey to stop the crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ ...
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Şebnem is free – freedom for Şebnem!
Eren Keskin Prominent human rights lawyer Eren Keskin celebrates the work of Turkey’s top forensic medicine expert Dr Şebnem Fincancı, ...
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Turkish medical association chief released from prison following conviction
A court in Istanbul ruled on Wednesday to release Dr Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Turkey’s top forensic medicine expert and chairwoman ...
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Iran executes two more protestors for alleged crimes against national security
The Islamic Republic of Iran announced on Saturday that it has executed two further protesters in relation to the ongoing ...
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