Social media campaign urges release of inmate with brain tumors
Social media users since Monday have been calling on Turkish authorities to release Özge Özbek, a former municipal social worker suffering from multiple brain...
Erdoğan supporters discuss on Clubhouse how to exterminate political prisoners
Audio records of a chatroom on social media app Clubhouse revealed a conversation among supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on how to...
Inmate on hunger strike kept in unsanitary conditions in hospital, lawyers say
Sibel Balaç, an inmate in Ankara’s Sincan Prison who has been staging a hunger strike since December 2021, is being kept in unsanitary and...
4 women in two Turkish provinces fall victim to femicide in one day
Four women in two different Turkish provinces were victims of femicide on Friday, Turkish media reported.
Zeliha Durmuş was killed by her husband, Süleyman Durmuş,...
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...
Kurdish leader Demirtaş’s books displayed among criminal ‘evidence’ seized in police raid
Three books authored by Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş -- "Leylan," "Devran" and "Seher" -- were displayed among criminal “evidence” seized in a police raid...
Armenians, Syrian refugees and Greeks top list of groups targeted by Turkish media in...
Armenians, Syrian refugees in Turkey and Greeks are at the top of the list of groups targeted with hate speech by the Turkish media...
Turkish court sends parents of 6 to prison on Gülen charges conviction
A Turkish couple on Saturday was arrested and sent to prison to serve sentences for conviction of links to the Gülen movement, leaving their...
Press groups call on Turkey’s top court to annul controversial media law article
Press organizations in Turkey have called on the country’s Constitutional Court to annul a controversial article of a media law which they say is...
Top prosecutor demands reversal of Turkey’s Istanbul Convention withdrawal
Aytaç Kurt, the chief public prosecutor of Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has demanded the cancellation of a presidential decree that...
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