Woman pushed back by Greece says what masked group did was humiliating and disappointing

A woman who was among five Turks pushed back to Turkey by Greek authorities a week ago Friday says they experienced humiliation and disappointment...

Woman who revealed a strip-search prohibited from visiting husband in Turkish prison for 6...

Ferda Öztürk, who earlier reported she had been strip-searched during a visit to her husband in prison, has been banned from the prison for...

Turkey’s ultranationalist party seeks ban on sex reassignment surgery

The far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), is working on legislation that bans sex reassignment...

Asylum seekers mistreated in Bulgaria, returned to Turkey: report

Migrants arriving in Bulgaria were detained in a “foul-smelling building,” mistreated, denied the right to claim asylum and returned to Turkey, Radio Free Europe/Radio...

17 detained in Turkey over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Wednesday detained 17 people as part of three separate operations targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, which is accused by...
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Former HDP executives indicted for referring to WWI killings of Armenians as ‘genocide’

Eleven former executives from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been indicted on charges of insulting the Turkish nation for referring to the...

PACE committee calls on Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania to respect right to seek asylum...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee for Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons on Wednesday called on Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania to...

Strip-search is an ongoing practice in Turkish prisons, opposition deputy says

Strip-search is an ongoing practice in Turkish prisons, human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu said on Tuesday in...

Top court upholds acquittal of ex-bureaucrat in ruling expected to set precedent for others...

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of one of its criminal chambers to acquit a former bureaucrat of terrorism charges due...

EU urges Bulgaria to probe shooting of refugee at Turkish border: report

The European Commission on Tuesday urged Bulgaria to thoroughly investigate the alleged shooting by Bulgarian guards of a Syrian refugee on the country’s border...

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