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Five miners killed in a Soma mine collapse in Turkey; fifteen young people detained with police brutality in İstanbul for marching in their memory

Turkey ranks 140th of 179 countries on V-Dem’s Human Rights Index, below Algeria, Somalia and Pakistan

Twenty detained in a Konya-centred operation; the stated basis is that alleged Gülen movement members called them in sequence

New wave of blocks: With at least 88 new other accounts, Turkey blocks the X account of İFÖD, the association that counts the country’s blocking orders

Turkey blocks the X account of EngelliWeb, the project that has documented censorship and country’s blocking orders since 2008

Turkey remands two journalists in the 2009 Yazıcıoğlu helicopter crash inquiry; one is accused over bringing footage to the media

Turkey’s forensic institute rules a prisoner with soft tissue cancer fit for prison, after scans showed his disease advancing

Istanbul judgeship orders the entire T24 news website blocked over 118 items the prosecution calls LGBT propaganda

At least 147 more X accounts blocked in Turkey today over posts about the collapsed investment funds

Forensic report on Servet Turgut emerges six years after his death; the surviving victim is the only person convicted

ECtHR President tells PACE that 12,000 new applications over Turkey’s emergency decree dismissals reached the Court in one year

The conditional release of lawyer Behiç Aşcı denied: Turkish prison board rules his compliance with prison rules was itself evidence he should not be released

European Court of Human Rights finds violations for 947 more people convicted on ByLock evidence, in three judgments delivered on one day

Twenty detained across six provinces in Istanbul-centred operation on evidence consisting of Bank Asya records, payphone calls and a secret witness

Turkish journalist Fatih Ergin remanded in a week under the disinformation article, over a job title he had already corrected

ECtHR puts questions to Turkey on the fairness of the Akıncı base coup trial, including microphones above the defendants

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