United Nations calls on Turkey to release 2 Gülen-linked individuals kidnapped from Malaysia
Turkey must release two men detained over suspected links to a cleric blamed for a 2016 coup attempt and pay them compensation for arbitrary...
Turkish treasury and finance minister says women too ‘fragile’ to do manual labor jobs
Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati on Tuesday said in a discriminatory remark that women were more fragile than men and should not...
President Erdoğan slams LGBT community, accuses opposition of undermining the family
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and opposition parties of being pro-LGBT and undermining the family, local media reported.
Kılıçdaroğlu,...
Lengthy prison terms handed down to Kurdish leaders draw global condemnation
An Ankara court’s verdict handing down lengthy prison sentences to dozens of Kurdish politicians, including imprisoned leaders Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, has drawn...
Turkish singer detained over remarks regarding religious school graduates
Famous Turkish pop singer and songwriter Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu has been detained as part of an investigation launched due to her remarks that allegedly...
Ex-prosecutor fleeing Turkey’s crackdown perishes in Aegean together with his wife
A former public prosecutor and his wife died after a speedboat carrying them overturned in the Aegean Sea as they were trying to flee...
Detainees subjected to torture in Turkish police custody
Members of the Gülen movement who were arrested for allegedly “spreading COVID-19 across Turkey” were subjected to torture and ill treatment in police detention...
İstanbul lawyers protest gov’t meddling in bar associations
A group of lawyers gathered in front of the Çağlayan Courthouse in İstanbul on Tuesday to protest a government bill aimed at amending the...
Pro-gov’t daily targets Turkish journalist in antisemitic attack
The pro-government Takvim daily yesterday launched an anti-Semitic attack against Karel Valansi, a Turkish journalist and foreign policy analyst, in a report critical of...
340 detained across Turkey for protesting overturning of Kurdish mayor’s election victory
Turkish police have detained 340 people over protests that erupted across Turkey in response to a local electoral authority’s decision to annul the victory...
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