Rights groups call on EU to strengthen commitment to improvement of fundamental rights and...

Improvement in fundamental rights and the rule of law should be at the heart of EU-Turkey relations, said 16 human rights and freedom of...

130,000 lost souls: Remarks by ex-minister bring official quake toll into question

The ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) mayoral candidate for İstanbul, a former minister, said on live television on Wednesday that Turkey had lost...

Front Line Defenders calls on Turkey to stop harassment of rights defenders in quake...

Front Line Defenders has called on Turkish authorities to stop the violence, legal harassment, arbitrary arrests and threats against human rights defenders in the...

In possible sign of official discrimination, villages are identified as Alevi on Turkish Health...

The Turkish Ministry of Health has allegedly been using a map of northern Tokat province on which Alevi villages appear to be clearly marked,...

ICU patients left to die in undamaged hospital in quake-stricken Hatay: report

Authorities at a hospital in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, which was hit by two major earthquakes last year, allegedly left some 20 patients...

Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them

https://youtu.be/1OJZU71gWB0 Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...

105K Turkish high school graduates haven’t enrolled in university amid economic crisis

More than 105,000 high school graduates in Turkey have been unable to enroll in a university this year despite being eligible, mainly due to...

2 teenagers in Turkey face prison sentences for insulting Atatürk, denigrating religious values

Turkish prosecutors have demanded prison terms for a 17-year-old who was arrested last week over a video of him performing a lewd act with...

Ailing 83-year-old inmate wants to see his village before dying in prison: daughter

Mehmet Emin Özkan, an 83-year-old inmate who suffers from severe health problems, wants to see his village before he dies in prison, his daughter...

Pro-Kurdish lawmaker says police illegally searched her İstanbul residence

Police forced their way into the İstanbul home of Çiçek Otlu, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in...

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