Rights organization files criminal complaint against far-right MP who threatened Turkish-Armenian lawmaker with genocide
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has filed a criminal complaint against far-right independent member of the Turkish Parliament Ümit Özdağ, who threatened Turkish-Armenian lawmaker...
Far-right MP attacks Armenian lawmaker, threatens with genocide
A far-right independent member of the Turkish Parliament has threatened Turkish-Armenian lawmaker Garo Paylan with facing the same fate as his ancestors amid debates...
Sözcü’s anti-migrant reporting triggers attack on Somali restaurant in Ankara
A Somali restaurant in Ankara's central Kızılay district was attacked on Tuesday following anti-migrant reporting by the Sözcü daily, the Gazete Duvar news website...
Writer who threatened to massacre neighbors in event of coup attempt was given police...
Writer Sevda Noyan, who sparked outrage after saying she had a list of anti-government and pro-coup neighbors that she would kill in the event...
Interior Ministry says no hate speech or crimes against Turkish Armenians occurred during Azerbaijan-Armenia...
Turkey’s Ministry of Interior said no attacks or hate speech targeting Turkey’s Armenian community occurred during last year’s clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over...
Erdoğan criticizes opposition, using ethnic and religious slur
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan resorted to discriminatory language when criticizing the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a speech at the Union of...
Syrian refugee family in southeast Turkey attacked in their home in an apparent hate...
A Syrian refugee family living in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province was attacked in their home on March 28 in an apparent hate crime, the...
Another Syrian refugee falls victim to apparent hate crime
Another Syrian refugee in Turkey has become a victim of a hate crime as an unidentified young man who was collecting trash was assaulted...
Kurdish-German politician receives death threats from Turkish far-right groups
Sevim Dağdelen, a Kurdish-German politician from the German Left Party, said she has been receiving death threats from Turkish ultranationalist groups, Deutsche Welle (DW)...
AKP deputy Özlem Zengin says women reporting unlawful strip-searches are disreputable and immoral
Özlem Zengin, a deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), described women who had revealed their experiences of unlawful prison strip-searches as...
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