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Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi has said the border wall along its frontier with Turkey will be expanded to 120 kilometers...
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Syrian refugee made to travel in handcuffs for 17 hours
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Turkish lawyer demands authorities enforce restraining orders amid rising femicide
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Kurdish leader imprisoned since 2016 declines to attend father’s funeral in protest
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UN-protected refugee deported to Turkey by Rwanda with his children
A Turkish refugee under United Nations protection was deported from Rwanda to Turkey on Saturday with his three children, following apparent pressure from the...
Turkish authorities deny 80-year-old imprisoned woman’s appeal to be put under house arrest
Turkish authorities have denied the appeal of an 80-year-old Kurdish woman, arrested for links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to be put...
Turkey sees record increase in number of prisons, rights violations under AKP rule
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has built more than 200 prisons in the past 16 years and continues to allocate large funds...
Negligence in tunnel collapse that killed 11 workers was covered up: Turkish Court of...
The Turkish Court of Accounts said an incident on September 24, 2020 in which an explosion took place in a mountain tunnel under construction,...
57 women killed by men, 34 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Fifty-seven women were murdered by men in Turkey in March and April, and 34 more died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide...
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