İstanbul residents prioritize fear of poverty over earthquakes: survey
Despite İstanbul’s vulnerability to earthquakes, poverty tops all other fears, including the threat of quakes, among the city’s residents, Turkish Minute reported citing a...
Erdoğan signals limiting top court’s power as he sides with appeals court in crisis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using a judicial crisis involving two high courts due to conflicting rulings on a jailed lawmaker to press...
Turkish gov’t detains 37 people, arrests 5 students over their alleged links with Gülen...
Turkish police on early Tuesday detained 25 people from various professions in simultaneous operations as part of the Turkish government's post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting...
Refugees in Turkey’s Aegean region suffered 2,980 rights violations in first quarter of 2021:...
Refugees living in the Aegean region of Turkey suffered 2,980 rights violations in the first four months of 2021, the Mezopotamya news agency reported,...
PACE rapporteurs denied permission to visit Kavala in prison
A request by the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to visit businessman and...
Turkey changes prison regulation to replace ‘strip-search’ with ‘detailed search’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made changes to a 2020 regulation on the execution of searches in Turkey’s prisons and detention centers, replacing...
ECtHR says Turkey arrested pro-Kurdish politicians to stifle pluralism, orders their release
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the rights of 13 former lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Family of missing Kurdish woman meets with opposition politicians at Turkish parliament
The family of Gülistan Doku, a young Kurdish woman who went missing on January 5, 2020, met with opposition politicians at the Turkish parliament...
Twisting his stance Turkey’s Erdoğan says he wants better ties with EU, Germany
By twisting his traditional hostile stance against the western world Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed hope for good relations with the...
Turkish court bans three books on Kurdish history
Three translated books on Kurdish history published by Turkey’s Avesta Yayıncılık have been banned by a local Turkish court on the grounds of “triggering...
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