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The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) has filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) case.
Police raided the home of Human Rights Association (İHD) Chair Eren Keskin's mother last night (December 3).
The raid was conducted because of an investigation into Keskin over a speech she made in the southeastern Dersim province two and a half years ago, Keskin told bianet.
As she wasn't at home, police called Keskin by phone and summoned her to give a statement, she said and added that she will depose on Tuesday.
The Council of Europe has initiated rarely used infringement proceedings against Turkey after Ankara’s failure to release businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala despite a European Court of Human Rights’ judgement ordering his immediate release.
MESA’s Academic Freedom Award for 2021 goes to the Faculty, students and alumni of Boğaziçi University.
Put on trial over their 700th gathering at İstanbul's Galatasaray Square, Saturday Mothers/People had their third hearing at the İstanbul 21st Criminal Court of First Instance today (November 24).
Rejecting lawyers' requests, the court has also rejected the request for filing a criminal complaint against the public officials responsible for the police attack on Saturday Mothers/People on August 25, 2018.
President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the public after the Presidential cabinet meeting in the capital city of Ankara yesterday (November 8).
The World Medical Association (WMA) and Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) have written an open letter to President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül and Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has released an urgent call for solidarity with Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp, who is standing trial for "being a member of a terrorist organization."
After assistant physician Dr. Rümeysa Berin Şen died in a car crash amid heavy workload and poor working conditions at a public hospital in Ankara, several healthcare workers protested this occupational homicide and their working conditions all across Turkey.
In the eastern province of Van, the commemoration of Şen and the protests took place at the Medical School of Yüzüncü Yıl University.
The Open Society Foundations urged the president of Turkey today to stop invoking George Soros’s name in an effort to obscure the facts around the case of Osman Kavala, the businessman and philanthropist who has spent four years in prison there on bogus charges.
In comments broadcast on Thursday, the Turkish president described Kavala as “Soros scum” after 10 Western countries, including the United States and Germany, urged Turkey to release him. He also compared Kavala’s four years behind bars to the treatment of “bandits, murders, and terrorists” in other countries.