The third hearing for the trial of the four people who wounded and tried to kill conscientious objector Mehmet Bal was ...

Journalist Perihan Mağden, who was on trial for her article in support of the conscientious objection, has been acquitted. She says ...

A lawsuit against the four people who participated in an activity to protest what happened to the conscientious objector Bal has ...

The court acquitted journalists Gençay and Çeşmecioğlu of their interview with the conscientious objector Bolot on October 30, 2005. There are ...

The four soldiers who were accused of tormenting conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan are acquitted. Tarhan’s lawyer is getting ready to appeal ...

The Military Prosecutor sees no need to file a lawsuit for the bad treatment and torture conscientious objector Bal had to ...

Mehmet Ali Avcı joins among conscientious objectionists with a public statement to refuse military service at the Istanbul Branch of the ...

Adana military court released conscientious objector Mehmet Bal by finding him not fit for military service. His lawyer objects the decision, ...

The Human Rights Investigation Committee may look into conscientious objector Bal’s ordeal, either when petitioned by the victim or informed about ...

Mehmet Bal, who refuses completing his military service on the ground of being a conscientious objector, goes on hunger strike to ...

Bal, a conscientious objector, is arrested for refusing to return to his unit. He was manhandled in the military detention facility ...

Halil Savda, a conscientious objector, who is in jail for supporting other conscientious objectors, is also sentenced to five months for ...

Seven human rights organizations start a campaign for the removal of article 318, “the alienation of people from military service”. Close ...

The conscientious objector Savda, still in prison, is declared exempt from military service to prevent the discussion of conscientious objection. Savda ...

After reading a press statement for the Solidarity Initiative for Ismail Saygi, conscientious objector Savda was himself taken into custody. The ...

Conscientious objector Ismail Saygi, who was taken into custody on 16 March, has been arrested. His supporters have planned a campaign ...

The ECHR has sentenced Turkey to paying Sanar Yurdatapan 3,500 Euros compensation for violating freedom of expression. ...

Turks in Northern Cyprus have also formed a Conscientious Objectors' Initiative, opposing militarism and legislation which punishes "alienating the public from ...

Three supporters of conscientious objector Halil Savda have been acquitted of "putting the public off military service". Turkey has still not ...

The 32nd issue of a local Gaziantep newspaper was confiscated after an article entitled "Mother, Don't Send Me to the Army" ...