Human rights organizations demand to know if Turkish authorities have taken precautions against COVID-19...
Human rights organizations demanded to know whether the Turkish Ministry of Justice had taken any precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in prisons,...
Turkish authorities detain 6 female students a second time for links to Gülen movement
Turkish authorities on Wednesday once again detained six female students for alleged links to the Gülen movement shortly after they were released from detention...
Turkey sees banning of more Kurdish-language events across country
Local administrations have canceled four events, three concerts and a theatre play that were to be performed in Kurdish in three provinces across Turkey...
2 high school students briefly detained for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan
Two high school students were detained in Istanbul on Tuesday morning for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish media reported.
Speaking to Halk...
Erdoğan seeks extradition of Turkish political dissidents in Sweden in exchange for its NATO...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has presented a list of 21 people who fled Turkey for political reasons and are currently living in exile...
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...
Turkish women’s organizations say authorities turn blind eye to sexual harassment from local men...
Following accusations that migrant men are sexually harassing Turkish women, women's organizations said authorities were quick to blame migrants but turned a blind eye...
25-year-old former cadet takes his own life after struggling with coup-related investigations
A 25-year-old former military cadet who was the subject of an investigation after a 2016 coup attempt in Turkey died by suicide on Monday...
Former intel official says Turkish intel agency abducts critics from Africa, Central Asia by...
Associate Professor Ali Burak Darıcılı, an intelligence expert and former official at Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has said the organization has forcibly returned...
169 people including 5 inmates died, 339 maltreated or tortured in Turkey in April:...
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in April included 169 deaths and 339 incidents of torture or maltreatment, with 78 of them taking...
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