At least 14 people were detained in İstanbul's Küçükçekmece. "We will neither give up on the struggle for the disappeared nor our rights," the Human Rights Association said in criticism of the police response.
Police did not allow a demonstration in from the Altınşehir Cemetery of the Nameless in İstanbul's Küçükçekmece district.
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected the applications of Gezi Park trial defendants Tayfun Kahraman, Mücella Yapıcı and Can Atalay, according to reporting by online news outlet T24.
Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the disciplinary penalties given by universities to members of the Academics for Peace -- a group who have been dismissed from their university jobs through statutory decrees after signing a 2016 petition -- had violated their right to freedom of speech and expression.
The appointed trustee rector of Istanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University is defying the court's decision to reinstate academic Can Candan to the university’s Department of Western Languages and Literature.
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Documentary filmmaker and lecturer Can Candan has filed two separate lawsuits after being dismissed by the president-appointed rector for the second time.
The lawsuits concern the rector's decision not to extend his term of office and a disciplinary punishment that the rector cited as a reason for that decision.
Both actions were "unlawful and unfair," said Candan.
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An unknown perpetrator carried out an armed attack on a building where the offices of several NGOs are located in the mostly Kurdish-populated southeastern city of Diyarbakır.
The masked assailant fired two shots at the building at around 1 a.m. today and then ran away, security camera footage showed.