Radical Islamist party calls for nationwide ban on public alcohol consumption in Turkey
A radical Islamist party in Turkey has expressed support for a recent ban on alcohol consumption in public places in İstanbul, saying that such...
10 briefly detained in western Turkey for protesting anti-LGBT public ad
Turkish police on Tuesday intervened in a demonstration in İzmir protesting the broadcast of an anti-LGBT public ad on TV stations, briefly detaining 10...
Report: Turkish man in police custody for 7 days loses mental health
A report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) shows that a Turkish man who was kept under police custody for 7 days in...
Document confirms diplomats spied on Erdoğan critic abducted by Turkish intelligence in Tajikistan: report
A judicial document obtained by Nordic Monitor confirms that Koray Vural, a Turkish businessman who is believed to have been rendered by Turkey’s National...
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...
3 doctors took own lives in a single day: Turkish Medical Association
The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has announced that three young doctors died by suicide in different parts of Turkey in single day, calling for...
Prosecutor says police chief accused of torture embezzled detainees’ money and valuables
According to a court document dated July 1, 2020, a public prosecutor in the western city of Afyonkarahisar said the former head of the...
Turkey accused of targeting Kurds in retaliatory airstrikes following Ankara suicide bombing
Recent Turkish airstrikes in northeastern Syria in response to a suicide bombing in Ankara on Sunday for which the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed...
Doctor bears witness to torture in Turkish mass detention center: Rape with police truncheon...
A medical doctor who was assigned to conduct physical examinations in a gymnasium-turned-mass detention center following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 spoke...
Nationalist opposition leader urges refugees in Turkey to go to Gaza to fight Israelis
Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, has called on all the refugees in Turkey, especially Syrians, to go to Gaza and...
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