3 doctors took own lives in a single day: Turkish Medical Association
The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has announced that three young doctors died by suicide in different parts of Turkey in single day, calling for...
Infographic: July 15, 2016 | Blow to Human Rights
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Activity report, the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures
State Department 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey
News stories by Turkey's state-run...
Turkey accused of targeting Kurds in retaliatory airstrikes following Ankara suicide bombing
Recent Turkish airstrikes in northeastern Syria in response to a suicide bombing in Ankara on Sunday for which the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed...
Syrian refugee shot dead in apparent hate crime
Syrian refugee Abdulkadir Davud (21) was shot dead on Sunday in what appears to be a hate crime in the Zeytinburnu district of İstanbul,...
Nationalist opposition leader urges refugees in Turkey to go to Gaza to fight Israelis
Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, has called on all the refugees in Turkey, especially Syrians, to go to Gaza and...
European rights court president draws further ire by posing with members of Turkey’s ruling...
President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Róbert Ragnar Spanó drew further ire from human rights defenders and the Turkish opposition after...
Turkey-based rights group receives 8 complaints from Diyarbakır prison in a day
The Human Rights Foundation (İHD) has received eight complaints alleging rights violations in a Diyarbakır prison in southeastern Turkey over the course of a...
Journalists covering story of Kurdish villagers thrown from helicopter detained in dawn raids
Four journalists who covered the story of Kurdish villagers who were allegedly tortured and later thrown from a military helicopter were detained on Tuesday...
Access bans imposed on news reports mostly about Erdoğan, family in 2022: report
Turkish authorities banned access to more than 40,000 URLs in 2022, with news reports about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family at the...
Turkish court considers publishing leaked state documents an act of terrorism
A Mersin court that handed down a prison sentence of 19 years, six months to jailed investigative journalist Mehmet Baransu on three separate charges...
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