14 detained in İstanbul-based operation over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police have detained 14 people including former military and police officers as part of an operation based in İstanbul targeting alleged members of...

US religious freedom commission recommends placing Turkey on special watch list for serious violations

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended that the State Department place Turkey on its special watch list based on the...

73 inmates died in Turkish prisons in 2022, opposition lawmaker says

Seventy-three inmates have died in Turkish prisons in 2022, according to a report by Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights defender Ömer...

Greece arrests 5 border police on suspicion of working with smugglers: report 

Greece has arrested five police officers from a special border guard force on suspicion of working with smugglers to help migrants cross into the...

Impossible to sustain Turkey’s cooperation on refugees with EU’s financial support alone: report

A recently published paper by a prominent German think tank on Turkey’s partnership with the European Union said it is not possible to ensure...

Transgender social media influencer assaulted in southern Turkey

Mika Raun, a popular transgender social media personality, was assaulted while on holiday in Antalya, southern Turkey. The attack occurred in the presence of her...

Turkey bans content of X’s AI chatbot Grok amid criminal probe over insults

A Turkish court has ordered the blocking of content produced by Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said...

Pregnant woman jailed on Gülen links taken to hospital due to health problems

A five-months-pregnant woman who was arrested and jailed on May 16 for alleged links to the Gülen movement despite regulations was taken for a...

Turkish authorities restrict access to disaster-hit province, detain activists

The Tunceli Governor’s Office has imposed a five-day ban on outgoing travel to neighboring Erzincan, where on Tuesday a landslide at a gold mine...

Bodies of last 5 miners retrieved 4 months after landslide in eastern Turkey

The bodies of five miners who were among nine buried in a landslide at a gold mine in Turkey’s eastern Erzincan province in February...

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