Turkey issued 9 arrest warrants for NBA star Kanter, official records reveal
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the widespread human rights violations taking place under...
Armed groups set up checkpoints in Antalya amid rumors that wildfires were caused by...
Armed groups set up checkpoints in different parts of Antalya province amid rumors that wildfires ravaging the region were started by the outlawed Kurdistan...
Women with brain tumor and heart condition detained over Gülen links
Aslı Öztürk, 35, who suffers from a brain tumor and a serious heart condition, was detained on Tuesday in Uşak province for alleged links...
Pro-Kurdish party calls on Turkey to recognize Yazidi massacre as genocide
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has urged Turkey to recognize the mass killings of Yazidis by the Islamic State in Iraq and the...
Teacher suffering from cancer jailed over alleged Gülen links
Fatımatüzzehra Babacan, 39, a teacher struggling with thyroid cancer for the past 10 years, was imprisoned on Friday after an appeals court upheld her...
Greece claims Turkey endangered migrants in Aegean boat accident
Greece’s migration minister has accused neighboring Turkey of allegedly endangering migrants at sea and ignoring an agreement with the EU to stem illegal migration...
Turkish photojournalist Bülent Kılıç on ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases
AFP photojournalist Bülent Kılıç was included on the One Free Press Coalition’s “10 Most Urgent” list of press freedom cases, the organization announced in...
Turkey cracks down on social media users critical of gov’t for wildfire response
Turkey’s General Directorate of Security (EGM) has announced that it has started legal proceedings against social media users on charges of causing fear and...
Rights organizations condemn racist attack against Kurdish family in Konya
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Turkey Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) on Saturday condemned what they described as a horrifying racist attack against...
7 Kurdish family members killed in Turkey attack
Seven members of a Kurdish family were killed Friday in central Turkey by armed assailants who tried to burn their house down in what...
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