Another parliamentary candidate from Green Left Party arrested on terrorism charges
A parliamentary candidate from the opposition Green Left Party (YSP) was among seven people who were arrested Wednesday on terrorism-related charges ahead of critical...
20-year-old woman takes own life, saying she saw no future under AKP rule
A 20-year-old woman died by suicide on Monday evening, saying the results of the May 14 elections in Turkey left her in despair and...
Video recording shows inmate being mistreated and stripped naked in Turkish prison
A video recording of an inmate being mistreated and stripped naked in a maximum-security prison in western Turkey was revealed during court proceedings in...
Journalist detained over terrorist propaganda accusations
Fırat Can Arslan, a correspondent for the Mezopotamya News Agency (MA), was detained in the early hours of Wednesday in Ankara as part of...
Victim of Erdoğan’s post-coup crackdown arrested in Turkey after pushback by Greece
A woman who was pushed back to Turkey from Greece, where she fled to escape imprisonment on trumped-up charges, has been arrested by Turkish...
Abusive men granted impunity by Turkish judiciary, say rights activists
Women’s rights activists in Turkey have said the judiciary often protects perpetrators of gender-based violence and femicide by granting them impunity, the Birgün daily reported.
In...
Turkey orders unregistered Syrians to leave İstanbul by September 24
The Turkish government has ordered unregistered Syrian refugees to leave İstanbul by Sept. 24 in the wake of heightened scrutiny over the refugee population...
Erdoğan’s Islamist ally seeks to abolish mixed-gender education
Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, chairman of the radical Islamist Free Cause Party (HÜDA-PAR), has urged the Turkish government to abolish mixed-sex education, the Birgün daily reported.
HÜDA-PAR is the...
Lawyer shot dead by Turkish border guards while fleeing Syria: SOHR
A lawyer died of his injuries after being shot by Turkish border guards while trying to cross into Turkey from Syria via the northwestern...
VIDEO — Turkish women say husbands detained in Malaysia cannot be linked to ISIL
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The wives of three Turkish men who were detained by Malaysian police in Kuala Lumpur last week have said their husbands are not Islamic...
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