The number of jailed journalists in Turkey reaches to 200

Stockholm Center for Freedom, an advocacy group that monitors rights violations in Turkey, has updated its mammoth list of jailed journalists in Turkey which...

Turkey bans Armenian folk group from performing at festival

Authorities in Turkey’s Tunceli province have banned the Armenian folk music ensemble Veradardz from performing at the 23rd Munzur Culture and Nature Festival, citing...

Turkish police detain 2 people for singing in Kurdish at a wedding

Turkish police raided a wedding celebration in the Narlıdere district of İzmir province and detained two local musicians who were singing in Kurdish, according...

Greece claims Turkey endangered migrants in Aegean boat accident

Greece’s migration minister has accused neighboring Turkey of allegedly endangering migrants at sea and ignoring an agreement with the EU to stem illegal migration...

İmamoğlu criticizes gov’t over peace talks with PKK, accuses it of political motives

Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has accused Turkey’s government of failing to turn renewed peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) into...

Jailed Turkish journalist Ali Bulaç not receiving medications as prescribed

Jailed veteran columnist and renowned theologian Ali Bulaç has not been given the prescribed medications he is required to take daily by the authorities...

COMMENTARY — Jihadists who decapitated priests in Syria got help from Turkey’s intelligence

By Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) had willingly and deliberately helped known Jihadists of Russian nationals who decapitated Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos...

Turkish prosecutor requests reduced sentence for man in infamous femicide case

A Turkish prosecutor has requested a reduced sentence for Fedai Varan, who slit his ex-wife’s throat in broad daylight in 2019, the Hürriyet daily...

Appeals court upholds prison sentence handed down to human rights defender and opposition MP...

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on Friday to uphold a two-and-a-half-year sentence handed down to human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...

Membership in Human Rights Association grounds for dismissal from public service, OHAL commission says

The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) said membership in Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) is a sign of ties to the...
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