4-year-old Syrian boy dies in tent fire in eastern Turkish province hit by quakes
Four-year-old Muhammed El Hasan Ali, who has been living in a tent with his Syrian family following devastating earthquakes in Turkey in early February,...
Turkey’s top appeals court upholds sentence of police officer who shot young Syrian refugee...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a police officer who shot a young Syrian refugee to death in 2020, the...
CPJ calls on Turkey to investigate attacks on journalists during recent elections and treat...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkish authorities to investigate multiple incidents of journalists being attacked or obstructed from reporting during the country’s...
888 child workers have died in occupational accidents in Turkey during AKP rule: İSİG
A total of 888 child workers have died in work-related accidents since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002,...
Turkish court releases 3 policemen arrested for allegedly beating 14-year-old Kurdish boy
A Turkish court has ruled to release from pretrial detention three police officers who were arrested for allegedly beating a 14-year-old Kurdish boy during...
ECtHR faults Turkey for detaining 144 judges and prosecutors after failed 2016 coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the European Convention on Human Rights by detaining 144 judges and...
German Left Party MP briefly detained in Turkey due to social media posts
Gökay Akbulut, a member of the German parliament from the Left Party, was detained upon her arrival at an airport in southern Turkey due...
Hamburg activists protest Turkish drone strike in Syria that killed media worker
Activists held a rally in Hamburg on Tuesday to protest the Turkish government over a drone strike in Syria that killed a driver and...
Turkey delivers burnt clothes of Kurdish woman to family 8 years after her death
The burnt and shredded clothes of Hezni İnan, a Kurdish woman who was killed during a curfew declared in Şırnak province in December 2015,...
Journalist indicted on charges of insulting Diyanet executives
Turkish prosecutors have indicted a journalist on charges of insulting a public official due to his remarks targeting the executives of Turkey’s Religious Affairs...
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