Ankara mayor Gökçek resigns upon Turkish President Erdoğan’s order
Melih Gökçek, the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality mayor, announced his resignation on Saturday, saying his decision came after an order from Turkish autocratic President Recep...
Turkish Red Crescent: Relief organization or for-profit company?
Turkey is debating whether its top charity organization, the Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay), is a relief organization or a for-profit company after a recent...
Female students strip-searched, denied right to consult lawyer
Female students detained by Turkish police last week over alleged links to the Gülen movement were subjected to a strip-search and interrogated without a...
Mother with infant under arrest until husband surrenders self in Turkey
Dilek Sağlam, a teacher and mother of a 10-month-old baby, has been under arrest since June 12 because her husband could not be found...
148 workers killed in March as Turkey’s work-related death toll hits 432 in 3...
At least 148 people died in work-related incidents across Turkey in March, according to a new report from the Health and Safety Labour Watch Turkey (İSİG),...
8 union members receive suspended sentences for insulting Erdoğan
A court in Zonguldak has sentenced eight members of the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) to suspended jail terms of up to...
Ailing man sent to prison to serve sentence on conviction of Gülen links
An ailing elderly man was arrested and sent to prison on Monday to serve a six-year, three-month sentence on conviction of links to the...
Asylum applications from Turks in Germany see 102 pct rise in first 9 months
There was a 102 percent increase in the number of asylum applications filed by Turkish citizens in Germany in the first nine months of...
Turkish court hands down suspended 15-month sentences to 3 academics over peace petition
An İstanbul court on Monday handed down suspended sentences of one year, three months to three Turkish academics on terrorism charges resulting from signing...
ECtHR questions Turkey over lawyer’s intimate body search while visiting her client in prison
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked the Turkish government to clarify the legal grounds for an intimate body search conducted on...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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