News Turkey Justice: Turkey reverses course, releases some academics imprisoned on dubious charges
The pendulum of Turkish justice that has been crashing academics for their real and invented political dissent since 2016 has swung back. On July 26, the Turkish Constitutional Court, in a stunning reversal, ruled that sentences given to ten Academics for Peace who protested a massacre of Kurdish civilians by the Turkish army violated their freedom of expression.
News Turkey Justice: ‘Her Eyes Were Full of Fear.’ Turkey Repatriates Children of ISIS Followers.
Turkey, like many Western countries ... in Iraq in a process that human rights organizations and the United Nations have criticized as summary justice. The 188 recently repatriated children left ...
News Turkey Justice: UN urged to act over 'purge' of Turkey's lawyers by Erdoğan
Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Trust in Turkey’s justice system is being undermined by the systematic dismissal and jailing of thousands of judges and prosecutors, an international coalition of ...
News Turkey Justice: Turkey: Key figure resigns from Erdogan's party
ANKARA, Turkey — A former Turkish deputy prime minister and key ... on Monday announced his resignation from the ruling Justice and Development Party, citing deep differences "in principles, values ...
News Turkey Justice: Turkey: Russia Preparing S-400 Systems for Delivery
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech to MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, on Jan. 8, 2019. Erdogan said ...
News Turkey Justice: Turkey’s Crackdown on Academics Represses History Once Again
Ironically, it was the ascension to power of Mr. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party ... The A.K.P. lost the election in June, ceding a 25-year control of Turkey’s largest city to the opposition ...
News Turkey Justice: Panel: US/Turkey Dispute Over Buying Russian Air Defense System Has Deeper Roots
Turkey doesn’t understand that ... now living in Pennsylvania, but the Justice Department has not found sufficient evidence in the Turks’ request to turn him over to Ankara for instigating ...
News Turkey Justice: Istanbul's election rerun: A blow to democracy in Turkey?
Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AK Party ... the Cato Institute's Centre for Global Liberty and Prosperity described the rerun as a stain on Turkey's democracy. He said the fact that some ...
News Turkey Justice: In Turkey, Imamoglu is a victim. Here’s why he doesn’t talk about it.
In a move that has been widely characterized as a power grab by Erdogan, Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) stripped Imamoglu of his newly elected post as mayor of Istanbul after just 17 days in ...
News Turkey Justice: Jailed PKK leader visit ban lifted, Turkey's justice minister says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has lifted a ban on lawyers visiting jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said on Thursday, two weeks after the first such visit ...
News Turkey Justice: In Turkey, the opposition to Erdogan remains optimistic — even though victory is unlikely.
The current political conflict in Turkey revolves around the Justice and Development Party’s authoritarian government and its repression of the opposition. But the complex history of past repressions ...
