3 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Greek island
Greece’s coastguard late on Sunday said it had found three bodies during a search for survivors after a migrant boat sank off the eastern...
Children of couple serving sentences on Gülen conviction living in tent with relatives
A 13-year-old girl whose parents were arrested two weeks ago to serve sentences for conviction of links to the Gülen movement has said in...
University students in Turkey’s earthquake disaster zone grapple with disease, floods and infestations
University students living in tent cities in Turkey’s earthquake disaster zone have been grappling with flooding, contagious disease outbreaks and vermin infestations, the Gazete...
Int’l rights groups, jurists call on Turkey’s chief justice to uphold ECtHR rulings
A coalition of international human rights organizations and legal professionals have called on Turkey’s Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan in a joint letter to ensure that the...
PACE urges Turkey to uphold Strasbourg court rulings, release Osman Kavala
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on Thursday urging Turkey to comply with the judgments of the European Court of...
Turkey arrests 2 teenagers for denigrating religious values, sentences one for insulting Atatürk
A Turkish court in Aydın has ruled to arrest two teenagers out of three who were detained on allegations of denigrating the public’s religious...
Turkey detains lawyers based on anonymous tip
The Ankara police have carried out house raids to detain 20 people, including lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği, ÇHD), on...
Kurdish politician allegedly strip-searched in western Turkey prison
The guards in an İzmir prison allegedly strip-searched and verbally assaulted Berna Çelik, a provincial executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who...
90 pct of LGBT individuals in Turkey subjected to digital violence, research shows
LGBT advocacy group KAOS GL has released a report that revealed that nine out of 10 LGBT individuals in Turkey regularly face digital violence.
Based...
Court in western Turkey sentences 4 activists over Boğaziçi protests
A Turkish court in İzmir has handed down varying prison sentences to four people due to their attendance at a gathering in support of...
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