Turkey among top 3 countries with steepest decline in liberal democracy index: report
Turkey is among the countries that “autocratized” the most, together with Poland and Hungary, according to the “Democracy Report 2021,” which was published by...
Turkey ordered detention of 51 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 51 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
Hospitalization of 84-year-old jailed general leads to calls for presidential pardon
The hospitalization of an 84-year-old retired general who is in prison for his role in the issuance of a military memorandum against the government...
Amid controversy surrounding state-run dorms in Turkey, 140 students treated for illness from dormitory...
In the midst of student demonstrations protesting poor living conditions in state-run dormitories, 140 university students were taken to a hospital for food poisoning...
Sexually harassed underage female employee told by boss to ‘get used to it’
A female high school student who was allegedly subjected to sexual harassment while working at a logistics firm in İstanbul was told by her...
From presidential palace to top court: Erdoğan appoints aide as court’s new member
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Metin Kıratlı, Turkey’s top bureaucrat serving at Erdoğan’s presidential palace, as a new member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court,...
Social media campaign highlights Turkey’s arbitrary denial of parole to political prisoners
Human rights activists on Wednesday campaigned on social media to draw attention to the problem of arbitrary denial of parole, a practice that specifically...
Hate speech against Gülen movement escalates as pro-Erdoğan propagandist calls for extermination
Journalist Fatih Tezcan, a pro-Erdoğan propagandist, on Tuesday said on a live YouTube broadcast that followers of the Gülen movement should be massacred right...
Elderly Kurdish couple sent to prison to serve sentence for allegedly aiding and abetting...
An elderly Kurdish couple in eastern Turkey's Van province were sent to prison on Tuesday after a top appeals court upheld a sentence handed...
Journalist given suspended sentence due to social media posts
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended 15-month sentence to a Kurdish journalist on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in her social media...
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