Turkey detains 74 over Gülen links on anniversary of coup attempt: minister
Turkish police on Monday detained 74 people across 27 provinces over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced...
4 judges associations in Europe send letter to Turkish justice minister for release of...
Several leading European judges’ associations have sent a joint letter to Turkish Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç calling for the denial of the conditional...
Turkish police adopt ISIS-like torture tactics, see women and girls as sex slaves: report
The terrible accounts of the torture of people in police custody at an unofficial detention site in Turkey, related by multiple victims in court...
Kurdish teenager fatally shot by soldiers in southeast Turkey
Özcan Erbaş, a 16-year-old boy living in a village in southeastern Turkey's Hakkari province, died after being fatally shot by soldiers, the Mesopotamia News...
Refugees in Turkey are pushed into ghettoization in absence of integration policies
The majority of Turkish society is resisting accommodating refugees, and migration policies are ineffective in integration, which is pushing refugees into ghettoization and causing...
Case of jailed teacher shows devastating effects of overcrowding and COVID-19 on prisoners
The case of a jailed teacher whose health deteriorated in prison after sleeping on the floor for five months due to overcrowding but who...
Erdoğan remains defiant amid calls for release of Kurdish leader Demirtaş following European rights...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sounded defiant in the face of statements from Germany, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and...
1 journalist arrested, 4 released on judicial probation for ‘targeting public officials’
A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of one of five journalists detained on Tuesday on allegations of targeting public officials while four...
Female journalists in Turkey face discrimination and harassment at work, says media association
Female journalists in Turkey face problems at work, ranging from unequal pay to sexual harassment, most frequently seen in local media outlets, according to...
Erdoğan sues opposition politician over remarks calling him a ‘dictator’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against a main opposition party politician seeking TL 250,000 ($32,000) in damages for remarks accusing...
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