Human rights defender Elçi remembered on 2nd anniversary of death across Turkey
Human rights defender Tahir Elçi, who was the former head of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, was commemorated on the second anniversary of his death on...
Eighty women reportedly being tortured under custody by Turkish police at Mersin Provincial Security...
A total of 80 women, including high school and university students, who were detained have been severely tortured under police custody at the Mersin Provincial...
Turkish Interior Minister Soylu says pro-Kurdish presidential candidate Demirtaş belongs in jail
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Tuesday that Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), fitted the...
Defendants blame Gülen movement for pregnant minor scandal at İstanbul hospital
Two defendants who appeared in the first hearing of a trial concerning a scandal at İstanbul’s Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Teaching and Research Hospital involving...
Bursa Mayor Aktaş refuses to provide hearse for 3 drowned Turkish refugees, including 2...
Bursa Mayor Alinur Aktaş, who was appointed by Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to replace the elected mayor, has refused to...
Turkey’s Saturday Mothers announces 701st gathering in İstanbul despite ban
The Saturday Mothers announced on Friday that they would be at Galatasaray Square for their 701st weekly gathering on Saturday despite a prohibition by...
Posters of Turkish President Erdoğan used in anti-racist campaign in Switzerland
The Socialist Party (SP) of Switzerland is running a counter-campaign to a racist initiative in the country with the motto, “We don’t want a...
Hate speech in Turkey against Christians on the rise
Christians in Turkey are worried about the increasing hate speech against their communities in the country, the Diken news website reported on Thursday, citing...
Columnist’s hate campaign against inmate with cancer ends in his death
Radical Islamist Turkish daily Yeni Akit columnist Mehtap Yılmaz’s hate campaign targeting cancer patient Ümit Gökhasan and his release from prison delayed the medical...
Armenian MP Paylan: I will never give up my fight for Turkey’s democratization
Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was threatened by far-right independent member of the Turkish Parliament Ümit Özdağ...
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