Contact visitation not allowed in Turkish prisons since beginning of pandemic despite reopening
Families of inmates have voiced protests as contact visitation in Turkish prisons has not been allowed since the beginning of the pandemic despite the...
Donors pledge 1 billion euros for Syrian refugees in Turkey
International donors led by the EU on Monday pledged 1 billion euros for Syrian refugees in Turkey and an additional 4 billion euros for...
Thousands of undocumented migrants are homeless in Turkey and other EU border countries: PACE
Thousands of undocumented migrants are homeless at the EU's external borders, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey and Belarus, said the Parliamentary...
Turkish woman imprisoned for financially supporting family of husband’s fellow inmate
Emine Güven, a mother of two, has been sentenced to four years in prison for sending money to the family of a man jailed...
Turkish prosecutors launched over 1.5 million terrorism-related investigations between 2016 and 2020: report
Public prosecutors initiated 1.576 million investigations on allegations of terrorism between 2016 and 2020, concluding 208,833 of them, the BirGün daily reported, citing the...
Turkish court acquits police officers on trial for Kurdish lawyer’s murder
A Turkish court has acquitted three police officers accused of killing prominent human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi, who was shot dead in 2015 in...
Opposition MP questions whereabouts of man who went missing 25 months ago
In a parliamentary question to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, opposition MP Mustafa Yeneroğlu sought information on the whereabouts of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who went...
Ex-spy chief reveals messaging data that served as grounds for mass arrests was obtained...
Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s former intelligence chief and current foreign minister, revealed in an interview on Monday that controversial data from the ByLock messaging app...
Turkey Tribunal working on complaint to be submitted to Int’l Criminal Court
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal, said it had started working on a complaint to be filed with the International Criminal...
Teenage Syrian refugee killed amid wave of racist attacks in Turkey
Ahmet Handan El Naif, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee worker, was killed in Antalya on Tuesday as racist attacks on Syrians have been spreading across...
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