PACE co-rapporteurs call on Turkey to implement ECtHR rulings following visit to Kavala in...

The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have called on Turkey to implement European...

Disabled earthquake victims complain of limited access to aid

Disabled people living in tent cities after their homes were destroyed by earthquakes in southeastern Turkey on February 6 have said it is difficult...

Opposition MP claims patients died due to power outage at hospital following earthquakes

An opposition party lawmaker claimed patients in the intensive care unit of Iskenderun State Hospital in Hatay province died due to a power outage...

Inmates in western Turkey’s Kütahya province provided two hours of water

Inmates in a prison in western Turkey’s Kütahya province have limited access to water, the Bold Medya news website reported. The Parmakören T-type prison, a...

Purge victim succumbs to cancer without saying goodbye to her jailed husband

Nursel Ekici, 48, a former teacher who was fired by an emergency decree as part of Turkey’s post-coup purge of state institutions, died of...

Hundreds of thousands lost their jobs in Turkey-Syria earthquake: ILO

Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it...

Turkey records 844 coronavirus-related deaths in last 5 months

Turkey has recorded 252,945 COVID-19 infections and 844 virus-related deaths in the last five months, the Evrensel daily reported, citing data from the Health...

Drug traffickers use Turkey’s citizenship laws to evade trial in Europe: report

Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers are increasingly evading capture by becoming Turkish citizens, VICE World News reported, citing European law enforcement officials. European law enforcement officials, speaking...

Mother of 2 pushed back from Greece arrested on Gülen charges

A mother of two was arrested on Tuesday to serve a sentence on conviction of “terrorist organization membership” after being pushed back from Greece,...

Opposition media under fire for supporting AKP’s psychological warfare on election night

Turkey’s pro-opposition media outlets have come under fire on social media for allegedly providing support to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) psychological...

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