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A court in Ankara has accepted an indictment prepared against Sincan 1st High Criminal Court Chief Justice Osman Kaçmaz after an investigation into a series of questionable rulings made by him stretching back to 2008.
İHD member Yurtsever was convicted under charges of insult because he had sent a "Human Rights Disgrace Certificate" to former Chief of Prisons Ertosun concerning the "Return to Life" operation in 2000. The punishment was...
ESP member Keskin filed a criminal complaint against police officers of the Esenler Üçyüzlü Police Station, claiming that she became a victim of harassment, torture and insult. Keskin had been arrested while distributing a...
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN TURKEY TO WRITE COLUMN FOR WEEKLY http://www.hairenik.com/weekly/2009/10/18/human-rights-activist-in-turkey-to-write-column-for-weekly/ October 18, 2009 WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)--The Armenian Weekly...
Albaraka Türk Participation Bank General Manager Adnan Büyükdeniz passed away of colon cancer on Monday night at the age of 51 after four years of treatment failed to keep the disease at bay. He had been hospitalized after his...
In a letter signed by hundreds and sent to top state officials as well as to the chief of general staff, civil society organizations have asked authorities to find out what caused the death of Ceylan Önkol, a 14-year-old girl...
Lawyer Eren Keskin, actor Murat Batğı and writer Edip Polat were handed a 1 year prison sentence for using the terms "Kurdistan" and "Kurds". The Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court found lawyer Erin Keskin, theater actor Murat...
ISTANBUL, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- More than 100 Turkish people protested in central Istanbul on Wednesday morning against the forthcoming International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) meetings next week. Police blocked the...
A 37-year-old Turkish chef, Hamza Keskin, who faces trial for four sexual assaults, three on a British and one on a Finnish woman, was jailed for 10 months last year and is currently free on bail, the Anatolia news agency...
Less than 1 month after the ban of Günlük newspaper, an Istanbul court also banned the "Democratic Initiative" newspaper on the grounds of an alleged praise of PKK member Aliye Timur in a news article about his funeral.
