Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan’s spying, profiling expands in Norway

Two more Norwegian NGOs with links to Turkish government were involved in what appears to be illegal profiling and surveillance of critics and opponents...

Rights activists struggle to keep Yusuf Bilge Tunç on the agenda 5 years into...

Turkish human rights activists on Wednesday took to the social media platform X to draw attention to Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former public sector...

Former police chief jailed in post-coup crackdown dies of cancer shortly after release from...

A former police chief who was dismissed by a government decree following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 and subsequently convicted...
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Top prosecutor signals new indictment seeking ban of pro-Kurdish HDP

Bekir Şahin, chief prosecutor for the Supreme Court of Appeals, has signaled the drafting of a new indictment seeking to shut down the pro-Kurdish...

404 people tortured, 10 people abducted in Turkey in 2020: TİHV

Four hundred four people were tortured and 10 were abducted in Turkey last year, according to an annual report released by the Human Rights...

Turkey briefly detains man for reacting to lack of Kurdish-language services at airport

Turkish authorities briefly detained Memduh Çalışan, who went viral on social media after posting a video of himself complaining about the unavailability of services...

Body search requirement lifted for jailed Kurdish leader after outrage

A prison administration in northwestern Turkey has backed off its requirement that jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş undergo a body check before and after...

US representatives introduce legislation calling for sanctions on Turkish officials violating human rights

Two members of the US House of Representatives on Thursday announced the introduction of the “Turkey Human Rights Promotion Act of 2021,” a bipartisan...

Drug traffickers use Turkey’s citizenship laws to evade trial in Europe: report

Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers are increasingly evading capture by becoming Turkish citizens, VICE World News reported, citing European law enforcement officials. European law enforcement officials, speaking...

Turkish presidency ‘donated’ $1.3 mln to AKP-run municipalities in İstanbul before elections

Bank receipts obtained by the Karar daily have revealed that Turkey’s presidency transferred TL 45 million ($1.3 million) to each of the 24 İstanbul...

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