Turkey drops 2 places on updated Henley Passport Index for 2022, ranking 52nd
Turkey has dropped two places on a list of countries with the most powerful passports and now ranks 52nd, according to the report for...
Slain HDP staffer’s father indicted on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda
The father of a young woman who was killed in an attack at the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in western Turkey last...
Turkey sentences Erdoğan critic Kavala to life in jail
A Turkish court Monday sentenced leading intellectual and rights campaigner Osman Kavala to life in jail on highly controversial coup plot charges that had...
Turkey ‘destroyed’ EU hopes by jailing Erdoğan critic: MEPs
Turkey “deliberately destroyed” its chances of joining the EU by jailing Osman Kavala, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the European Parliament said...
Turkish expatriate in Germany attacked over Gülen links in apparent hate crime
A Turkish man who has been residing in Germany for 41 years was attacked in an apparent hate crime by the Turkish owner of...
Family of 21-year-old shot dead by police demand justice two years on
The mother of Alican Razı, 21, who was shot dead by a police officer after violating an order to halt in 2020, said authorities...
Rector’s office bans pride march at ODTÜ
The rector’s office at the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara has banned an annual pride march that was to be held on...
18,165 babies born to underage mothers in Turkey in last 20 years: report
A recent report revealed that in the last two decades 18,165 babies were born to underage mothers in Turkey.
The report was drafted by Republican...
Military cadets did not know a coup attempt was unfolding, top court says
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, which earlier this month overturned life sentences handed down to dozens of military cadets who were convicted on coup...
Jewish cemetery in İstanbul desecrated by vandals
Thirty-six headstones in a Jewish cemetery in İstanbul have been knocked over in the latest apparent vandalism of a Jewish burial ground in Turkey,...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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