Turkey’s intel agency renditioned Gülenist businessman from Tajikistan: state-run media
Koray Vural, a Turkish businessman who had gone missing in Tajikistan in mid-September and was being sought by Turkey over his links to the...
Turkish-German boxer receives death threat after critical remarks about Turkish-Islamic organization
An acclaimed Turkish boxer living in Germany received a death threat after voicing criticism of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), one of...
Top court rejects exiled journalist’s rights claim against pro-government daily
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application filed by exiled journalist and author Can Dündar claiming that news published by the pro-government Sabah daily...
Rights watchdogs: Turkey should immediately release human rights defender Osman Kavala
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project in a statement on Monday called...
Academic arrested in Turkey due to sexist remarks about women taken hostage in Israel
A lecturer at a university in northwestern Turkey has been arrested due to his sexist remarks about women who were taken hostage by the...
Condition of democracy and human rights has worsened in Turkey since pandemic: Freedom House
The condition of democracy and human rights has grown worse in 80 countries, including Turkey, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, said a report by...
New Amnesty campaign urges Turkish authorities to end ban on Saturday Mothers protests
Amnesty International has launched a campaign to petition Turkish authorities to remove the ban on the weekly protest vigils of the Saturday Mothers, a...
Turkey’s Interior Ministry accused of hiding femicide statistics
The Turkish Ministry of Interior said the number of femicides in Turkey dropped in the first 10 months of 2020, but they have not...
Amid controversy surrounding state-run dorms in Turkey, 140 students treated for illness from dormitory...
In the midst of student demonstrations protesting poor living conditions in state-run dormitories, 140 university students were taken to a hospital for food poisoning...
European rights court slams convictions based on secret witness testimony
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that secret witness testimony, which Turkish courts have accepted as evidence, particularly in the trials...
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The May 2023 re-election of...