Turkey’s intel agency threatens family of Turkish-German academic who criticized Erdoğan
Burak Çopur, a Turkish-German professor of political science at Germany’s Essen University, said in an interview with Ahval on Thursday that his family in...
Turkey investigated 340,052 people over alleged political crimes in 2025, official data show
Turkish prosecutors investigated 340,052 people in 2025 over alleged political and terrorism-related offenses, official statistics show, highlighting the scale of politically driven investigations in...
Unions rally behind Emine Şenyaşar in ongoing justice campaign
Emine Şenyaşar, an activist who has been demanding justice for three family members murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice...
Turkish police raid homes of members of pro-Kurdish HDP, detain 36 on terror charges
Turkish police raided the homes of members and officials of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the headquarters of an art association on...
Turkish gov’t not serious about UN’s periodic human rights review process: Human Rights Watch
The Turkish government’s refusal to acknowledge and address key issues at the core of the human rights crisis the country is currently facing shows...
Ex-governor’s son among 10 jailed as probe into disappearance of Kurdish student deepens
The son of a former provincial governor was arrested over the weekend in an investigation into the 2020 disappearance of university student Gülistan Doku,...
Social media campaign urges release of inmate suffering from debilitating neurological disorder
Social media users on Wednesday called on Turkish authorities to release Yazgül Dural, an inmate suffering from a neurological disorder whose health has deteriorated...
Erdoğan brings reinstatement of death penalty to Turkey’s agenda again as elections loom
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has brought reinstatement of the death penalty back to Turkey’s agenda just like he does during almost every election...
Turkish court orders seizure of exiled journalist Can Dündar’s assets
Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar (54) was stripped of his assets and declared a fugitive by an Istanbul court on Wednesday, Turkish media reported.
The...
Turkish actor in exile announces US theater tour after turning his immigrant experience into...
Turkish actor and filmmaker Nadir Sarıbacak, who has lived in exile in the US since a failed coup in Turkey in 2016, said he...
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