AKP, MHP reject motion to investigate bureaucrats collecting multiple salaries
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), on Tuesday rejected a parliamentary motion filed by the...
Turkish police raid IHD Diyarbakir office, detain board member
Turkish police on Thursday raided the Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır branch, detaining board member Ferhat Berkpınar, the Duvar news website reported.
The raid took...
Jailed media executive given 1,406 years in match-fixing ‘conspiracy’ trial
The former chief executive of Turkey’s now-defunct Samanyolu Media Group has been given a jail sentence of 1,406 years on various charges in a...
Scores of women tell of unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons after AKP deputy’s denial:...
A number of women subjected to unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons have come forward to talk about their experiences in videos shared on social...
COMMENTARY — How Turkey’s intel aided al-Qaeda in Syria: The case of Şen brothers
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s notorious intelligence agency MİT has been involved in arming, funding and providing logistical support to all sorts of Jihadist groups in...
Kurdish leader Demirtaş’s books displayed among criminal ‘evidence’ seized in police raid
Three books authored by Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş -- "Leylan," "Devran" and "Seher" -- were displayed among criminal “evidence” seized in a police raid...
Mothers of enforced disappearance victims hold 1,000th Saturday vigil in İstanbul
The Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the fate of loved ones who disappeared in police custody in Turkey, held their...
Turkish court drops case against women’s rights group fighting femicide
A Turkish court on Wednesday rejected a prosecutor’s attempt to shut down a leading women’s rights group that fights against femicide on charges of...
Bogus indictment against Osman Kavala and Henri Barkey is politically motivated and bereft of...
A new indictment accusing human rights defender and businessman Osman Kavala and US academic Henri Barkey of spying and attempting to overthrow Turkey’s constitutional...
Lawyer says Turkish authorities have barred access to investigation into Gabonese student’s death
The lawyer representing the family of a 17-year-old Gabonese student who was allegedly murdered in northwestern Turkey said in a statement to the Turkish...
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