Jail sentence for Demirtaş upheld by Turkish appeals court An Istanbul court confirmed that the remarks by former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş in 2015 against the Erdoğan administration were an 'insult', and constituted a [...]

Turkish journalist Güngör Arslan assassinated A local journalist in the Kocaeli province of Turkey lost his life after an attack by a gunman who opened the fire at his office. Journalist Güngör Arslan was [...]

Turkey: Residents of Diyarbakır protest against restrictions on Kurdish A day before International Mother Language Day, residents of Diyarbakır express their objections to the restrictions that still exist against Kurdish: it has only recently [...]

Turkish Constitutional Court rules on validity of ‘secret witness’ statements While the Constitutional Court in Turkey recently ruled that secret witness statements containing no information about any action, place, date or individual can not [...]

Pressure on Kurdish language at its peak in Turkey As the bans on the Kurdish language have reportedly reached unprecedented levels in Turkey in the last 20 years, the crackdown intensified particularly after 2015, [...]