Turkey detained 99 minors over protests linked to Syria offensive: pro-Kurdish party
Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party said Thursday that police had detained at least 99 minors in January over protests tied to a Syrian government offensive...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says he laughed at ICC extradition demand for al-Bashir
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he laughed at an International Criminal Court (ICC) demand for the extradition of Sudanese President Omar...
Turkish court acquits 2 human rights activists who recognized Armenian genocide
Two human rights activists from a leading rights organization in Turkey have been acquitted of insult charges against the Turkish nation and government due...
Journalist assaulted in eastern Turkey faces trial for insulting attacker
Sinan Aygül, a local journalist based in the eastern province of Bitlis who in June was physically attacked after covering municipal corruption allegations, is...
Protests against pro-gov’t company’s quarry in northern Turkey banned
The Governor’s Office of the Black Sea province of Rize has imposed a 15-day ban on demonstrations in one of its districts amid ongoing...
Doctor jailed due to alleged Gülen links dies of heart attack in prison
Ali Özer, a 48-year-old doctor who was jailed due to his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, has died of a heart attack...
Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkolu, tortured to death in police custody, would be acquitted if...
Forty-two-year-old Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was tortured to death under police custody in the wake of a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016...
2 children accompany mother serving prison sentence on conviction of links to Gülen movement
Two children, aged two and four years, are accompanying their mother, Serpil Turan, in prison following her arrest on January 5 to serve a...
Turkey should scrap ‘obsolete and unjustified’ offense of insulting the president: HRW
Human Rights Watch has renewed its call for Turkey to repeal Article 299 of the penal code, which criminalizes “insulting the president,” citing recent...
UN report tells some 2,000 dead since truce with PKK collapse in Turkey
UN investigators found some 2,000 people were killed in 18 months of fighting, and accuse Turkish forces of serious human rights violations. The killings,...
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