Inmates suffer in sweltering heat due to water outages at Antalya prison
Inmates at an Antalya prison in southern Turkey are enduring hardship due to sudden and prolonged water outages amid the summer heat, the Bold...
CPJ calls on Turkey to investigate attacks on journalists during recent elections and treat...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkish authorities to investigate multiple incidents of journalists being attacked or obstructed from reporting during the country’s...
German union claims Turkey asked students to spy on Erdoğan critics
A German education union claimed on Thursday that Turkish diplomats in Germany have been urging students from the diaspora to spy on their teachers...
3 minors die in occupational accidents in central Turkey amid growing public concern
Three underage workers died in workplace accidents in Turkey in the past week, intensifying public concern over child labor and unsafe working conditions for...
Press group bestows freedom award on 16 journalists jailed in Diyarbakır
The Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC) has bestowed this year’s Press Freedom Award on 16 journalists who were recently arrested in southeastern Diyarbakır province on...
Turkey’s top court says stripping jailed opposition MP of parliamentary status not legitimate
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has said removing the parliamentary status of an opposition lawmaker whose incarceration led to a judicial crisis is “null and void,”...
Turkey uses facial recognition to spy on millions: report
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has added a facial recognition system to its law enforcement arsenal that helps it investigate millions of...
Turkish gov’t to create its ‘truth ministry’ amid rising censorship
The Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency has announced that Turkey will create its own fact-checking mechanism to “fight against lies and false facts...
Gov’t major obstacle to exercise of artistic freedom in Turkey: report
Justice and Development Party (AKP) government authorities continued to be a major obstacle to the exercise of artistic freedoms in Turkey in 2020, responsible...
Turkey’s judicial council rewards judges and prosecutors for their role in gov’t-led prosecutions
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Friday named 11 judges and prosecutors, many of whom played critical roles in government-led prosecutions, as...
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