Woman who revealed a strip-search prohibited from visiting husband in Turkish prison for 6...

Ferda Öztürk, who earlier reported she had been strip-searched during a visit to her husband in prison, has been banned from the prison for...

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu defiant after suspension from office and arrest

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu vowed to continue his political fight after being jailed in a corruption investigation and suspended from office Sunday, developments that...

38 students detained as police use excessive force at ODTÜ pride march

Turkish police used excessive force to disperse an annual pride march held at Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara on Friday, despite a...

Council of Europe: Osman Kavala’s imprisonment is aimed at dissuading human rights defenders

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), the organization's statutory decision-making body, issued a statement on September 3, urging the Turkish...

Erdoğan’s crackdown does not spare minors: Teenagers recount trauma of police custody

Two teenage girls detained last week in a police operation focused on alleged members of Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by Turkish President...
HDP gathering

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...

Veteran Turkish actor who stood trial on Erdoğan insult charges dies at 86

Genco Erkal, a distinguished Turkish actor and director known for his extensive contributions to Turkish theater and cinema as well as his political activism...

AKP, MHP reject motion to investigate bureaucrats collecting multiple salaries

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), on Tuesday rejected a parliamentary motion filed by the...

Green Left Party’s parliamentary candidate in recent elections arrested on terrorism charges 

Meryem Yıldırım, a candidate for parliament from the opposition Green Left Party (YSP) in the elections held on May 14, has been arrested on...

Turkey to deport couple facing execution in Iran

Turkish authorities have decided on the deportation of an Iranian Kurdish couple despite the fact that they face execution in Iran for having taken...
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