Turkey blocked over 219,000 URLs in 2023: report
Turkey banned access to 219,059 URLs in 2023, according to the Free Web Turkey 2023 Internet Censorship Report released on Friday.
The report highlights that...
Calling Erdogan a Jew is insulting and damaging to his prestige and honor, his...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s lawyer said that referring to the president as a Jew is insulting and damaging to his prestige and honor,...
Turkey’s media watchdog investigates Prime Video due to ‘indecent content’
Turkey’s media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has launched an investigation into an animated series streaming on Amazon Prime Video due...
Council of State refuses to reinstate Istanbul Convention soon after Erdoğan’s remarks targeting treaty
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Police detain 5 more people for playing Kurdish songs in southeastern Turkey
Turkish police have detained five people for playing Kurdish-language songs at a wedding in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Bold news website reported...
Ex-prosecutor fleeing Turkey’s crackdown perishes in Aegean together with his wife
A former public prosecutor and his wife died after a speedboat carrying them overturned in the Aegean Sea as they were trying to flee...
UK citizen recounts his abduction in Kenya by individuals allegedly linked to Turkish intelligence
Necdet Seyidoğlu, a UK citizen who was kidnapped on Friday by individuals allegedly connected to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has recounted his terrifying...
Greece to extend border wall to stop migrants, wants EU help: report
Greece will renew a request for European Union funds in 2022 to extend a border wall along its frontier with Turkey and promised to...
Torture, ill-treatment and prison conditions in Turkey: 2024 in review
Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment of people in custody since a coup attempt in July 2016. Lack of condemnation...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in 11,830 applications in 2021
Turkey’s Constitutional Court found at least one violation of human rights in each of 11,830 applications in 2021, according to updated statistics announced by...
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