Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention is a ‘worrying step backwards’: UN human rights experts
Turkey’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women, is “a...
Purge victim details emotional toll his wife’s death took on family
Yusuf Coşkun, a former teacher imprisoned for links to the Gülen movement, wrote a letter to his brother detailing the suffering he experienced in...
Turkish coup suspect colonel says ‘putschists’ planes’ took off on MİT orders
Staff Lt. Col. Hakan Karakuş, one of the suspects in an ongoing trial concerning a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has said...
Amid disappearance of little girl, public figures highlight large number of missing child cases...
Amid the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakır province, public figures have raised awareness of the large number of missing children...
Right to life of 1,326 people violated in first 7 months: opposition MP
An opposition lawmaker has revealed that the right to life of 1,326 people, including two minors, was violated in Turkey in the first seven...
Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan spends his 71st birthday in prison
One of Turkey’s most famous novelists and journalists, Ahmet Altan has spent his 71st birthday in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison, where most political prisoners...
COMMENTARY — Is ISIL setting its sights on Sweden as a place to settle?
By Abdullah Bozkurt
In what is seen as a deliberate and systematic pattern, Turkey’s Islamist government continues to fail in cracking down on jihadist networks...
Turkey to deport 2 Syrian refugees for threatening, denigrating Turkish women
Two Syrian refugees in Turkey have been detained and will be deported after footage showing them using profanities and threatening Turkish women with rape...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in access ban imposed on X accounts
In a promising development amid increasing online censorship in Turkey, the country’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in the banning of access to...
Şenyaşar family calls on people to break Ramadan fast with them in front of...
Members of the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding justice for three of their relatives murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from the...
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