Tragedy off Greek coast as 42 migrants attempt journey from Turkey, 4 dead
Three children and a woman were killed Sunday after a boat carrying 42 migrants from Turkey sank off the Greek island of Leros, Agence...
Turkey’s top court to no longer accept applications concerning lengthy trials
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has announced that it will no longer accept applications concerning claims of the violation of the right to a fair trial...
Turkey’s competition board fines Meta $37.2 mln in data-sharing probe: report
Turkey’s competition board fined Meta Platforms 1.2 billion lira ($37.20 million) on Wednesday after concluding two separate investigations on data-sharing in its Facebook, Instagram,...
Turkish gov’t detains health union chair and members over alleged terror links
Turkish police in the early hours of Tuesday detained the co-chair and members of the Health and Social Service Employees Union (SES) over alleged...
781 people reported torture in Turkey in 2023: rights foundation
A total of 781 people sought assistance in 2023 from the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) for themselves or a relative due to...
Another purge victim dies of cancer
Yusuf Güner Aksay, a 41-year-old former teacher who was dismissed from his job by a government decree as part of a post-coup purge in...
Turkey’s hunger threshold reaches minimum wage
A labor union study put Turkey’s hunger threshold for March at TL 16,793 ($523), slightly below the minimum wage of TL 17,002, the Evrensel...
Targeted by Erdoğan, Turkey’s LGBT community face ‘tsunami of hate’
Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East have found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighborhood of İstanbul.
Today,...
Turkey has the fewest number of doctors per capita in Europe: Eurostat
Turkey, where more and more doctors are moving abroad due to poor working conditions and acts of violence, has the fewest number of doctors...
Turkish prosecutor asks court to ban pro-Kurdish HDP
A Turkish prosecutor on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's third-largest group, AFP reported.
President Recep...
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