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.
On 18 August, Oktay Saral, chief adviser to President Erdoğan, wrote publicly to the Islamic preacher and government critic Alparslan Kuytul: “Your turn will come!” Kuytul had days earlier criticised police raids on the Süleymancılar, another religious community, and argued they were being punished for not backing the governing party. The next morning counterterrorism police […]
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.
Fatma Gök is a housewife from Mersin. She was sentenced to six years and three months in Gülen-related proceedings on the strength of two witness statements saying she had been seen at an association giving religious talks and reading the Quran. She has no other alleged act against her. In June 2023 she was released […]
Third ECtHR order to release Osman Kavala, after 3,226 days. Erdoğan’s chief legal advisor called it a “political project.”
On 25 August the Grand Chamber ruled in Kavala v. Türkiye (No. 2) (no. 2170/24). By 15 votes to 2, it found violations of six Convention provisions: Articles 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 18. It held that Kavala’s conviction resulted from a flagrant denial of justice, that the measures against him pursued the ulterior […]
Turkish police detained two women over assistance to study in Germany. The prosecutor named no offence and identified them through their fathers.
On Friday 28 August, Turkish police detained Esma Batmaz in Istanbul and Hilal Köseoğlu in Muğla in pre-dawn raids. The stated basis: they received assistance to study in Germany. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office alleges that a man living in Mannheim arranged education in Germany, through an education consultancy, for children of people imprisoned […]
An Istanbul court seized every copy of jailed mayor İmamoğlu’s book before publication, naming no offence.
On 27 August, the Istanbul 4th Criminal Court of Peace ordered the seizure of every copy — printed and still on the presses — of “The Nation Is My Witness,” and banned its distribution and sale. The author is Ekrem İmamoğlu, the imprisoned mayor of Istanbul and the opposition’s presidential candidate. The 400-page book sets […]
Women in Turkish Prisons – Zeynep Çoban
Profile VICTIM : Zeynep ÇobanINCIDENT : A Qur’an teacher and mother of two was imprisoned and sent to prison.LOCATION : Denizli, TurkeySITUATION : She was sentenced to 6 years and 10 months in prison on allegations of membership in the Gülen movement. Case Summary Zeynep Çoban, who is being held in Denizli Prison, was sentenced […]
