Turkey has requested removal of massive amount of online content from Google in 10...
Turkish government agencies have requested the removal of a total of 90,400 web pages and other content from Google in the last decade, Turkish...
Turkish veteran journalist Acar, who said ‘My newspaper turned into a prison,’ in jail...
Mustafa Erkan Acar (45), a Turkish journalist with 22 years of experience, has been deprived of his freedom for 557 days as of Feb. 2,...
CoE to supervise Turkey’s execution of ECtHR judgments on Kavala, Demirtaş at quarterly meeting
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers, in its quarterly meeting to take place December 5-7, will address Turkey’s compliance with European Court...
Lawyer arrested on trumped-up terrorism charges dies of COVID-19 in prison
Lawyer Metin Yücel, who was arrested on trumped-up terrorism charges in October 2016, has died in prison after contracting COVID-19.
Yücel's death was announced by...
Local Kurdish politician in SE Turkey killed in attack
Ahmet Gün, an executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), was killed Monday morning by unidentified gunmen in the southeastern province...
Assyrian, Chaldean associations call on Turkish authorities to investigate disappearance of villagers
Chaldean and Assyrian associations in Europe, the United States, Australia and Iraq sent a joint letter to Turkey’s justice and interior ministers demanding a...
Turkey releases writer imprisoned over solidarity with Kurdish daily
Imprisoned writer, activist and journalist Celalettin Can has been released from prison in northwest Turkey where he has been incarcerated for more than three...
PKK militants executed 13 Turks in northern Iraq: Ankara
Turkey on Sunday accused outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants of executing 13 Turkish nationals, mainly members of the security forces, whom they had...
We Will Stop Femicide Platform reveals staggering number of femicide cases over a year
At least 315 women were killed by men in Turkey in 2023, the Cumhuriyet daily reported, citing numbers from the We Will Stop Femicide Platform...
Kosovo to try individuals involved in illegal deportation of Turkish teachers
Kosovar authorities have indicted three individuals involved in the illegal deportation of six Turkish teachers to Turkey on March 29, 2018, Balkan Insight reported.
The...
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The May 2023 re-election of...