Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Turkey’s jailed rights defender makes final appeal before verdict

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One of Turkey’s most well-known detainees appeared in court on Friday for what could be his final hearing in a case that has come to symbolize Ankara’s tense relations with the West. Osman Kavala, a Paris-born activist and philanthropist, was relatively unknown when he was detained at Istanbul’s airport in October 2017 after returning from … Read more

Turkey jails Kurdish ex-mayor on terror conviction

Turkey jails Kurdish ex-mayor

A Turkish court on Monday sentenced the ex-mayor of a major Kurdish city to more than nine years in prison after convicting him of “membership in an armed terror group.” Adnan Selcuk Mizrakli was mayor of Diyarbakir until he was suspended in August along with the mayors of Mardin and Van — all of them … Read more