Police beat minors in southeastern Turkey
Three Kurdish teenagers said they were subjected to police torture during detention in Turkey's southeastern city of Van, lawyers from the Van Bar Association...
German-Kurdish footballer Naki accuses Özil of hypocrisy on racism
Deniz Naki, a Kurdish footballer who has been targeted by the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his political views in...
Turkey’s top court finds discrimination in denial of retirement payment to dismissed civil servant
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a former public servant was subjected to unlawful discrimination when he was denied a retirement payment following his...
Turkey’s Erdoğan hires over 1,100 maintenance workers for his presidential palace
A total of 1,108 people have been hired as full-time staff to maintain the Turkish presidential palace in Ankara since June, the Cumhuriyet daily...
Police officer seen harassing a female protestor in Ankara
A university student who was detained for participating in a protest organized by Solidarity Association of Prisoners Families (TAYAD) in Ankara on Saturday was...
Turkish NGOs bring controversial April 16 referendum to ECtHR agenda
A group of Turkish NGOs, including the Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB), the Halkevleri (Community Centers) and the Alevi Pir Sultan...
Press freedom and human rights in Turkey must not be held hostage to geopolitical...
Human rights issues, including press freedom, in Turkey must not be held hostage to geopolitical developments, and the international community must step up its...
Ex-diplomats subjected to severe torture, says deputy
Some 20 former employees of the Turkish Foreign Ministry who were among 100 detained last week as part of an investigation into alleged cheating...
MP brings case of young Kurdish woman murdered in Afrin to Turkish Parliament
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 7 that a young Kurdish woman was found dead in Al-Fayraziyah village near the...
ECtHR notifies Turkey of 1,000 more applications over Gülen-linked convictions
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has notified Turkey of an additional 1,000 applications in its docket related to convictions for Gülen movement...
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