Women’s group protesting Erdogan’s all-female university detained in Ankara
A group of women was detained yesterday in Ankara after they attempted to stage a demonstration against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's initiative for an...
Turkish authorities must end vindictive prosecutions of former staffers of Özgür Gündem: CPJ
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked Turkish authorities to drop all charges against former staffers of Özgür Gündem, a now-defunct newspaper that had...
Victims’ families outraged by Turkish gov’t failure to prevent killings in northern Iraq
The families of Turks who were killed in the Gara region of Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday as a result of an operation carried out...
IHD, Saturday Mothers call for effective investigation into disappearance of former bureaucrat
The Human Rights Association (İHD) asked Turkish authorities to urgently find Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former bureaucrat who has been missing since December 29,...
Dutch security body concerned about Erdoğan’s role in rise of extremism in Netherlands
A secret report on Dutch national security that was leaked on Monday has revealed concerns among the authorities about the influence of what it...
Civil society group founded by jailed businessman Kavala faces closure
A leading Turkish civil society group founded by jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala on Tuesday rejected as “unlawful” a case filed by the...
Secret letter reveals how Turkey’s Justice Ministry asked prison administration to isolate former high...
Turkey’s Ministry of Justice asked the Keskin chief public prosecutor to take a series of measures to isolate and closely monitor the communications of...
5-year-old girl succumbs to cancer without saying goodbye to her jailed father
Five-year-old Kübra Kuzan died of cancer on Sunday without being able to see her father, a former bureaucrat removed from his job and jailed...
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...
Former teacher imprisoned over Gülen links dies from COVID-19 weeks before his release
Ersoy Karamustafa, a former teacher arrested over alleged links to the Gülen movement, died in prison on Saturday of COVID-19, less than two months...
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