Woman serving sentence with 3-month-old daughter conditionally released due to baby’s health

Emine Coşkun, who was arrested in İstanbul on Friday to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement and was being...

3 dead after migrant boat hits rocks off Greek island of Lesbos: report

Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday after a dinghy carrying them from the nearby...

Juvenile offenders and children accompanying mothers in southern Turkish prisons among the most vulnerable...

Incarcerated juveniles and young children accompanying their mothers in prison in southern Turkey are among the groups most affected by devastating earthquakes on February...

Turkey’s intelligence agency confirms abduction of more than 100 people with alleged links to...

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has confirmed in its yearly report that it conducted operations for the forcible return of more than 100 people...

US senators introduce bipartisan Transnational Repression Policy Act

Four members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- Democrats Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Cardin of Maryland, and Republicans Marco Rubio...

Hundreds of thousands lost their jobs in Turkey-Syria earthquake: ILO

Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it...

Turkey records 844 coronavirus-related deaths in last 5 months

Turkey has recorded 252,945 COVID-19 infections and 844 virus-related deaths in the last five months, the Evrensel daily reported, citing data from the Health...

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...

34 journalists arrested in less than a year in Turkey: report 

Thirty-four journalists have been arrested for their work in the last 11 months as part of separate investigations across Turkey, according to the pro-Kurdish...

EU chiefs congratulate Turks on ‘massive’ vote turnout

EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel congratulated Turkish voters on their large turnout in the first round of national elections, hailing...

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