Turkey freezes assets of 770 people, including journalists and rights activists, over alleged terrorism...
Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 people including some journalists in exile and an organization on the grounds of terrorism financing, Turkish Minute...
Top election authority overturns annulment of pro-Kurdish party candidate’s election victory
Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Wednesday approved an appeal made by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) against a decision...
Turkey ordered detention of 51 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 51 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
4 women in two Turkish provinces fall victim to femicide in one day
Four women in two different Turkish provinces were victims of femicide on Friday, Turkish media reported.
Zeliha Durmuş was killed by her husband, Süleyman Durmuş,...
Top Turkish court rules former teacher was tortured in police custody
Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on May 18, 2021 that a former teacher arrested for links to the Gülen movement was tortured in detention and...
Erdoğan vows voluntary return of 1 mln Syrians, accuses Kılıçdaroğlu of hate speech against...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday in a live television interview with public broadcaster TRT said 1 million Syrian refugees would return home voluntarily, accusing...
Turkish prosecutor demands 15 years for Kurdish villager who was allegedly beaten by security...
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded 15 years in prison for Kurdish villager Osman Şiban, who was allegedly beaten by security forces in Van province...
2 Kurdish men shot on Turkey’s Iraq border by Turkish security forces
Two Kurdish men were shot and seriously injured by Turkish security forces in southeastern Hakkari province on Tuesday while trying to cross the border...
337 prominent figures of Turkish society call for a ‘democracy alliance’
Following the detention and subsequent arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, 337 people — including writers, academics and politicians — have called on the...
Main opposition leader visits Şenyaşar family members, who have been demanding justice in political...
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on Thursday visited members of the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding...
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