Jailed former Kurdish mayor attends sister’s funeral under heavy security escort

Former Diyarbakır co-mayor Gültan Kışanak from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was temporarily released from prison in Kocaeli province under heavy gendarmerie escort...

Turkish Twitter users commemorate Ankara train station bombing victims and demand justice

Turkish Twitter users started a hashtag campaign yesterday commemorating the victims of bombings at the Ankara train station 2,000 days after they occurred and...

VIDEO — Turkish women say husbands detained in Malaysia cannot be linked to ISIL

https://youtu.be/kmn6BgRnqtc The wives of three Turkish men who were detained by Malaysian police in Kuala Lumpur last week have said their husbands are not Islamic...

Turkey’s ex-VP says journalist who accused him of accepting $50 mln in bribes is...

Fuat Oktay, Turkey’s former vice president and current ruling party MP, on Wednesday denied allegations that he received $50 million in bribes from a...

Turkish Consulate in Warsaw seized passport of a news portal founder

Turkey’s General Consulate in Warsaw has seized the passport of a Turkish national in Poland as part of increasing pattern of arbitrary refusal of...

Guards in SE Turkey prison allegedly beat inmates for exchanging greetings

Prison guards in Diyarbakır allegedly beat six inmates for greeting a fellow inmate on his way back to his cell from seeing visitors, the...

4 female journalists under arrest in southeastern Turkey stage hunger strike in protest of...

Four female journalists who were arrested in June have gone on a hunger strike to draw attention to rights violations in Turkish prisons, the...
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Number of inmates in Turkish prisons almost quadruples over a decade

Figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) have revealed how prisons have recorded a quadrupling in annual inmate arrivals over the last 11...

Greece says stops over 1,000 migrants from Turkey

Athens on Monday accused smugglers from Turkey of trying to send more than a thousand migrants to Greek islands before the boats were detected...

Amid international success, Turkey’s conservatives target women’s national volleyball team

Amid the Turkish national volleyball team’s great success in the Women’s European Volleyball Championship, Turkey’s conservative opinion makers have been targeting the players for...
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