Turkish doctors call for stronger vaccine policies amid surge in childhood diseases

Amid a surge in childhood diseases such as measles, Turkish doctors are urging the government to strengthen healthcare policies to ensure timely access to...

Turkish police detain 25 over alleged links to Gülen movement

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 25 people in coordinated operations across six provinces as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement,...

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...

HRW urges Turkey to ensure accountability for deaths in 2023 earthquakes

The Turkish government has an obligation to ensure that public officials responsible for thousands of defective buildings that collapsed in the February 6, 2023...

Rights advocate submits parliamentary bill to repeal Turkey’s post-coup decree-laws

Opposition deputy and leading human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has brought to the parliamentary agenda a bill to repeal the executive decree-laws issued...

Stockholm Center for Freedom joins the Alliance Against Genocide

Press Release The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) announced today that it has joined the Alliance Against Genocide, an international coalition dedicated to creating the...

Turkey’s main opposition says Erdoğan is trying to retain power by removing alternatives, vows...

Turkey’s main opposition party on Tuesday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of trying to hold on to power by eliminating political alternatives, Turkish Minute...

Names of 7 stripped naked by Turkish security forces in anti-PKK operation announced

Identities have been announced of seven people who were detained in Muğla’s Ortaca and Seydikemer areas on October 4. It came out that the...

Diyarbakır Bar files criminal complaints against Turkey’s pro-gov’t journalists Küçük, Uğur

https://youtu.be/aN1BdnyPiGA The Diyarbakır Bar Association on Wednesday filed a criminal complaints against pro-government Turkish journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur for “inciting crime” and “praising...

Team of AKP Deputy Chairman’s brother bombed Parliament on July 15

An indictment drafted in the case of a failed coup attempt on July 15 claims that the team of Maj. Gen. Mehmet Dişli, one...

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