Turkey issues detention warrant for human rights activist over school shooting posts
A Turkish prosecutor has issued a detention warrant for Salih Gergerlioğlu, a human rights activist and son of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party...
Owner of cafe offering service only in Kurdish detained in SE Turkey
A cafe owner in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır was detained following a police raid on his café after he was targeted on...
Photojournalist who captured murder of Kurdish student in 2017 sentenced for terror propaganda
A local court has sentenced a photojournalist who took photos of a university student being shot to death by a police officer in southeastern...
Wife of man abducted by Turkish intelligence arrested
Zehra Türkmen, the wife of Gökhan Türkmen, who was allegedly abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was arrested on October 1 to serve...
İstanbul Governor’s Office again bans Armenian genocide commemoration
The İstanbul Governor’s Office has for the fourth consecutive year denied permission to hold a ceremony marking April 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, the...
Turkey detains 72 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 72 people across 17 provinces over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on...
332,884 detained and 101,000 incarcerated due to Gülen links, says Turkish interior minister
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Tuesday a total of 332,884 people have been detained, of whom 101,000 were arrested and jailed, due...
Majority-Kurdish town denied Internet access for a year for ‘security reasons’: report
Nusaybin, a predominantly Kurdish town in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin, has been suffering from restricted Internet access since a Turkish military operation in...
Pro-gov’t Cengiz Holding seeks to restart gold production at mine where 9 workers died
Cengiz Holding, a major Turkish conglomerate with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has applied to restart gold production at the Çöpler mine...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges Turkish gov’t to stop attacks on human...
Welcoming concern by Turkey's government for the human rights of the Rohingyas, and others in foreign countries, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid...
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