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...
Police detain at least 40 in SE Turkey protesting airstrikes in northeast Syria
Turkish police detained at least 40 people in the country’s southeast on Thursday for holding a demonstration in protest of ongoing airstrikes by the...
Kurds accuse Turkey of destroying oil, power facilities in NE Syria
Turkish bombardment has damaged more than half of Kurdish-held northeast Syria’s power and oil infrastructure, dealing a blow to its energy-dependent economy, Turkish Minute...
PACE to recommend sanctioning Turkish officials involved in political imprisonments
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is set to vote on a draft resolution urging member and observer states as well...
Top court rejects exiled journalist’s rights claim against pro-government daily
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application filed by exiled journalist and author Can Dündar claiming that news published by the pro-government Sabah daily...
Nationalist opposition leader urges refugees in Turkey to go to Gaza to fight Israelis
Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, has called on all the refugees in Turkey, especially Syrians, to go to Gaza and...
Mother of boy who recently died of cancer detained on Gülen conviction
The mother of Yusuf Kerim Sayın, who died of bone cancer last week, was detained on Monday by police in Turkey’s Sakarya province to...
8 years on, victims’ lawyers demand accountability for Ankara train station bombings
On the eighth anniversary of the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the Turkish Republic, lawyers for the victims’ families are still demanding...
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