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Turkey ordered 31 lawyers detained and searched 39 law offices. The Justice Minister pronounced on their “guilt” the same day.

Did Davutoğlu insult President Erdoğan? Turkey has opened an insult investigation into its own former prime minister over a speech he gave five years ago.

Turkey has Europe’s highest imprisonment rate. Its prisons now hold 130,000 more people than they were built for.

Turkey now ranks below Syria for press freedom. RSF places it 163rd of 180 — its lowest position ever.

A boy of 18, days from starting university, took his own life. He had spent his childhood in a family dismantled by emergency decree.

A presidential adviser warned Kuytul his turn was coming. Police raided his home next morning. He, his wife, and now both his lawyers are detained.

NEW REPORT by Prof. Johan Vande Lanotte | Turkey: Fewer prosecutions do not mean less risk.

İmamoğlu’s lawyer has published a prison guide from his cell, 439 days in — past Turkey’s own maximum detention limit.

NEW REPORT by Prof. Johan Vande Lanotte | Turkey: Fewer prosecutions do not mean less risk.

Court decided to release on Friday, re-arrested before leaving prison. Comedian Deniz Göktaş has spent sixty days jailed over one comedy show.

Her mother jailed in May, her brother in July for studying in Poland. Ayşe Asude is 15, disabled, alone.

Third ECtHR order to release Osman Kavala, after 3,226 days. Erdoğan’s chief legal advisor called it a “political project.”

Turkish police detained two women over assistance to study in Germany. The prosecutor named no offence and identified them through their fathers.

An Istanbul court seized every copy of jailed mayor İmamoğlu’s book before publication, naming no offence.

OTHERS’ Submission to OSCE ODIHR on the abuse of Anti-terror Laws in Turkey

OTHERS’ submission to UN Human Rights Committee in response to its call for input on Freedom of Association

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