Turkey’s new prison courtroom can accommodate mass trials of hundreds
Turkey is building a huge new courtroom inside its largest prison complex on the outskirts of İstanbul that can accommodate the mass trials of...
31 women killed by men, 21 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Thirty-one women were murdered by men in Turkey in January and 21 more died under suspicious circumstances, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on...
Detainees subjected to torture in Ankara police custody: report
People who were detained due to alleged links to the Gülen movement were subjected to torture at a police detention center in Ankara, the TR724...
Kosovo PM sacks security chief, interior minister over abduction of 6 Turkish citizens
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Friday dismissed the interior minister and the secret service chief after the arrest and extradition to Turkey of...
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...
Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: 2023 in Review
The Gülen movement is a worldwide civic initiative rooted in the spiritual and humanistic tradition of Islam and inspired by the ideas of Fethullah...
ECtHR rules Turkey violated MPs’ rights by stripping them of immunity in 2016
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the freedom of expression of 40 former lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Turkey arrests two more Kurdish mayors
As part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the co-mayors of İpekyolu in the eastern Turkish province of...
Over one in six people in Turkey addicted to drugs
Drug addiction in Turkey climbed to nearly 15 million people in 2025, up from more than 10 million a year earlier, according to the...
Journalist gets suspended sentence due to tweet on YPJ women in Kobani
An İstanbul court has handed down a suspended sentence of 15 months to a journalist due to a 2015 tweet that showed women, part...
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