Mother of 2 pushed back from Greece, arrested in Turkey
A woman who was pushed back to Turkey from Greece, where she fled with her husband, daughter and 18-month-old baby to escape imprisonment on...
Stage actor who fled to Turkey during Iranian protests facing deportation
An Iranian stage actor who fled to Turkey following his detention in Iran during the Mahsa Amini protests has been detained and is now...
Spouse of missing educator appeals to Kyrgyz president to find her husband
Reyhan İnandı, the wife of Turkish-Kyrgyz educator Orhan İnandı, appealed to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on Thursday to find her husband, who went missing...
Asylum seeker, 3-year-old son lost in Aegean Sea after migrant boat sinks
A man seeking asylum and his 3-year-old son were lost in the Aegean Sea after a boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized near the...
A year after deadly Istanbul nightclub fire, victims’ families still waiting for justice
Nearly a year after a devastating fire at an Istanbul nightclub claimed 29 lives, the families of the victims are still waiting for those...
US Congress passes act fighting political abuse of INTERPOL’s notice system
The US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), aka the Helsinki Commission, has announced on its website that the US Senate passed...
Former Ankara mayor targets minorities in controversial tweet
Melih Gökçek, the former mayor of Ankara and a prominent politician, has targeted Turkey’s ethnic and religious minorities, claiming that millions of Greeks, Armenians...
PACE reveals Turkey’s tactics in its first resolution on transnational repression
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in its first resolution condemning all forms of transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule...
2 toddlers left to care of grandparents after both parents jailed over Gülen links
Murat, 29 months old, and Fatih Demir, 4, were left to the care of their grandparents after their parents were imprisoned in the western...
Turkey’s top court declines to issue new ruling on jailed MP stripped of seat
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has declined to issue a third ruling in the case of a jailed opposition politician who was stripped of his parliamentary status last...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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