3 transexual women attacked in one week as violence against LGBT+ community increases in...
The LGBT+ community in Turkey witnessed multiple acts of violence against its members last week with at least three transexual women suffering injuries or...
Turkish gov’t detains 347 military officers in a week over alleged links to Gülen...
The Turkish government has detained 347 military personnel, including high-ranking officers on active duty, in the week between July 2 and July 8 as...
Prison authorities deny labor union official access to essential medication
İsmet Aslan, a Turkish labor union official battling a rare form of skin cancer, has been denied access to his prescribed medication in prison,...
Swedish PM calls organizers of anti-Turkey events ‘useful idiots for foreign powers who want...
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference on Tuesday that the people who organized a Quran burning and hanged an effigy...
67-year-old woman standing trial on terrorism charges for attending fundraisers and religious gatherings
Ulviye Yiğitsözlü, 67, appeared at a hearing yesterday at the Osmaniye 2nd High Criminal Court, where she is being tried on charges of membership...
Four ODTÜ students arrested over placard ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
An Ankara court on Wednesday arrested four students from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by carrying...
Two Kurdish journalists killed in ‘Turkish drone’ strike in northern Syria
Two journalists from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast have been killed, reportedly by a Turkish drone strike, while covering the fighting between Ankara-backed militia and...
‘Waiting for our dead’: Anger builds at Turkey’s earthquake response
With every passing moment, Ebru Fırat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the...
Turkish Twitter users commemorate Ankara train station bombing victims and demand justice
Turkish Twitter users started a hashtag campaign yesterday commemorating the victims of bombings at the Ankara train station 2,000 days after they occurred and...
Turkish gov’t realises almost 15,000 official contacts across world to defame Gülen movement
Turkish government led by Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has realised almost 15,000 official contacts with its international interlucutors to defame the members and...
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