21,495 people fined for violating pandemic curfew in a week as AKP continues its...
A total of 21,495 people were fined by Turkish authorities for violating a pandemic curfew in a week, while members of the ruling Justice...
18 students, 3 teachers detained during Turkish police raid on prep school over Gülen...
Twenty-one people were detained in a Friday police raid on a prep school established by teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs by...
[UPDATE] Turkey’s earthquake death toll exceeds 42,000
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) has put the death toll of powerful earthquakes that hit Turkey earlier this month at more than...
Turkish gov’t claims ‘Zarrab case in US is a plot against Turkey’
The court case in New York against Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab on charges that he violated US sanctions on Iran through Turkish banks...
Greece says Courts independent as Turkey angered by refusal to extradite soldiers
After Turkey expressed anger over a verdict from the Greek Supreme Court on Thursday denying the extradition of eight servicemen who were allegedly involved...
Another Grup Yorum musician on hunger strike dies in prison on 297th day
Mustafa Koçak, a jailed member of the Grup Yorum band who had been on a hunger strike in a prison in western Turkey, died...
Turkey detains 42 over Ramadan aid to families linked to Gülen movement
Turkish police on Thursday detained 42 people, most of them women, on accusations of providing financial assistance during Ramadan to families of individuals jailed...
Turkish Deputy PM Bozdağ: Turkish people are smarter than France’s Macron
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Wednesday said there are people working to discredit Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the June...
Systematic rights abuses in Turkish prisons reflect state policy, civil society groups say
Six civil society organizations in Turkey have called for an immediate end to what they describe as systematic human rights violations in prisons, saying...
Rights groups report doctors in İzmir prison tested positive for COVID-19
The Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) and the country’s Human Rights Association (İHD) have raised an alarm as two doctors in Şakran Prison in...
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