UN rapporteurs warn Turkey over disproportionate use of force and torture during İmamoğlu protests
United Nations special rapporteurs expressed serious concerns regarding allegations of disproportionate use of force and torture by Turkish police during demonstrations in March protesting...
Far-right party leader’s top aide criticizes famous Turkish comedian for comments on Kavala, Demirtaş
Famous Turkish comedian and actor Cem Yılmaz was lambasted by a top aide to Devlet Bahçeli, chairman of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),...
Female students strip-searched, denied right to consult lawyer
Female students detained by Turkish police last week over alleged links to the Gülen movement were subjected to a strip-search and interrogated without a...
Turkish citizens under UN protection feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence in...
Seven Turkish citizens are feared to have been abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) due to their links to the Gülen movement after...
Strasbourg protest to call for ‘justice for everyone’ as Turkish rights violations, CoE inaction...
Thousands of Turkish expatriates are expected to gather in Strasbourg on Wednesday for the fourth annual demonstration outside the Council of Europe (CoE) and...
Top court finds rights violation in access ban on Ekşi Sözlük forum
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found a violation of freedom of expression in an access ban on popular social media platform Ekşi Sözlük imposed in...
DEM Party lawmaker slams Turkish gov’t inaction in preventing prison deaths
Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) deputy Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit in a parliamentary speech on Wednesday condemned the high number of inmate deaths in Turkish prisons,...
EU chiefs congratulate Turks on ‘massive’ vote turnout
EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel congratulated Turkish voters on their large turnout in the first round of national elections, hailing...
Families of disabled children in Turkey complain of discrimination and lack of care
Families of disabled children in Turkey said they faced discrimination on a daily basis and that their children did not have access to proper...
Indictments seek lengthy prison sentences for 42 May Day demonstrators in pretrial detention
Two indictments drafted separately by Turkish prosecutors seek prison sentences of up to 13-and-a-half years for each of 42 people arrested for defying a...
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