Mine owned by Turkish MP faces scrutiny over hazardous conditions
A coal mine in Manisa, western Turkey, owned by an MP from the ruling party has come under scrutiny for exposing workers to hazardous...
Inmates in Turkish prison put in solitary for performing Kurdish folk dance
Fifteen inmates in Turkey’s Batman prison have been put in solitary confinement for 15 days as punishment for performing a traditional Kurdish folk dance,...
Lawyer faces defamation trial after strip-search claim
Betül Alpay, a Turkish lawyer, is facing a defamation trial after publicly claiming she was subjected to an unlawful strip-search in a prison, the...
Turkey detains 34 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 34 people across 19 provinces over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by the government,...
Erdoğan’s propaganda center’s staff tripled, expenditures surged 12-fold since 2018: report
The Presidential Communications Directorate, viewed by many as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s propaganda headquarters, has tripled its workforce while increasing its expenditures twelvefold...
3 construction workers die in workplace accident, again raising occupational safety concerns in Turkey
Three construction workers in Ankara’s Sincan district died on Monday when a scaffolding collapsed, once again raising concerns about workplace safety in Turkey, the...
33 women killed by men, 24 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Thirty-three women were murdered by men in Turkey in August, and 24 more died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Economic pressures push Turkey’s children out of school and into workforce
As schools in Turkey prepared to reopen, a 15-year-old in the southeastern province of Şırnak took to social media to find work instead of...
Kurdish inmate with ALS allegedly mistreated in hospital
The staff of an İstanbul hospital has allegedly mistreated Abdulkadir Kuday, a Kurdish inmate suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), denying him water and...
Turkish court gives woman suspended sentence for criticizing Instagram ban
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended seven-and-a-half-month sentence to a woman for criticizing a government ban on Instagram, Turkish Minute reported on...
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