Woman jailed for husband’s role in corruption operations involving Erdoğan denied medical treatment
Sümeyya Aksoy, 43, the wife of a police chief jailed for her husband’s role in corruption and bribery operations back in 2013 that implicated...
Woman who lost family members in political murder faces prison in insult case
Emine Şenyaşar, a woman who has been demanding justice for three of her family members murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from Turkey’s...
Infants as young as 3 months kept in quarantine prison cells, says inmate
Mothers and their babies as young as three months of age are being kept in quarantine cells, said inmate Emine Trabzon in a letter...
HEDEP youth member physically assaulted by police
Edanur İbrahimoğlu, a youth spokesperson for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP), was physically assaulted by police who intervened in a press...
Man allegedly abducted by Turkish intel in İstanbul recounts details of torture
Gökhan Güneş, who returned home nearly a week after he was allegedly abducted by Turkish intelligence officers in broad daylight in İstanbul, has said...
EP calls on Frontex to review operations in Greece over migrant pushbacks
The European Parliament has passed a resolution urging Frontex, the European Union agency for common external border management, to “scale down and repurpose” its...
Turkey arrests 39 people for social media activities in one week
Authorities detained 39 people for their social media posts in the first week of February, the Turkish Interior Ministry said today in a statement...
Court orders granddaughter of historic Kurdish figure to display Turkish flag on social media...
A granddaughter of Sheikh Said, an iconic Kurdish figure who led a Kurdish nationalist rebellion against the new Republic of Turkey in 1925, has...
Uyghurs in Turkey: far from China but close to fear
Uyghurs in Turkey have expressed worries over being extradited and the safety of their families in China, saying they don’t contact them, fearing their...
Travel ban imposed on journalist for ‘praising’ man who attacked protestor carrying Islamic flag
A travel ban has been imposed on a well-known journalist as part of an investigation launched on accusations of praising a criminal due to...
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