Court accepts indictment seeking life sentence for opposition politician on espionage charges
An indictment seeking a life sentence and an additional 35 years for defense analyst and Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) politician Metin Gürcan has...
66.4 percent of Turkish voters prefer parliamentary system: poll
Two out of every three voters in Turkey support the parliamentary system of governance over the executive presidential system that the country voted to...
Gendarmerie commander responsible for burning down Kurdish village, killing 9, Turkish court says
Bülent Karaoğlu, a former gendarmerie officer, was responsible for the burning down of the southeastern Turkish village of Altınova (Vartinis) in 1993, which caused...
7,071 women murdered by men in Turkey during 19-year-long AKP rule: report
A report released by an opposition lawmaker on the occasion of International Women’s Day shows an upward trend in cases of domestic violence in...
Europe saw 82 percent increase in asylum applications from Turkish citizens in 2023: EUAA
The number of Turkish citizens seeking asylum in the EU countries, Switzerland and Norway increased by 82 percent in 2023 over the previous year,...
Kurdish lawmaker faces up to 15 years in prison on terrorism charges
A lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was stripped of her parliamentary immunity and jailed earlier this month, faces a prison...
Politician from pro-Kurdish party to stay in prison despite dementia claims
A Turkish court has ordered the continued imprisonment of a Kurdish politician despite claims that she is suffering from dementia, Agence France-Presse reported.
Aysel Tuğluk,...
RSF calls on Turkish gov’t to abandon controversial ‘agents of influence’ legislation
Paris-based press organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Turkish government to abandon a proposed amendment on “agents of influence,” warning about its risks...
DEM Party lawmaker slams Turkish gov’t inaction in preventing prison deaths
Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) deputy Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit in a parliamentary speech on Wednesday condemned the high number of inmate deaths in Turkish prisons,...
Jailed Kurdish leader not allowed to see his daughters
Jailed former Co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş was not allowed to see his daughters on Tuesday due to coronavirus-related...
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