Activist starts serving prison sentence for showing solidarity with Kurdish daily
Well-known activist, writer and journalist Celaletttin Can has been sent to prison to serve a 15-month sentence on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda for...
Opposition MP questions surge in allegations of police mistreatment in Turkey
An opposition lawmaker has posed a parliamentary question to the interior and justice ministers about the recent surge in complaints alleging police mistreatment in...
Academics face probe for protests against gov’t-appointed rectors
The rector of the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University, who was appointed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has launched a disciplinary investigation into academics who...
Health minister faces criminal complaint for excluding Kurdish on e-prescription system
A lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Green Left Party (YSP) has filed a criminal complaint against the health minister for excluding the Kurdish language from...
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...
Saturday Mothers use QR codes to tell stories of enforced disappearance victims
The Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking to learn the fate of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in...
70-year-old Kurdish inmate undergoing treatment for cancer dies in hospital
Şakir Turan, 70, a Kurdish inmate who was suffering from throat cancer, has passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Turkey’s Erzincan...
Mother of 2 pushed back from Greece, arrested in Turkey
A woman who was pushed back to Turkey from Greece, where she fled with her husband, daughter and 18-month-old baby to escape imprisonment on...
Uyghur design director working in Turkey arrested in China during family visit
A Uyghur design director working for a Chinese locomotive company in Turkey was arrested by Chinese authorities during a family visit to Xinjiang, Turkish...
Turkey’s chief of general staff set up a secret hit team for extrajudicial murders,...
Metin Gürak, recently appointed Turkey’s chief of general staff, has been accused of clandestinely forming an assassination squad to carry out attacks and murders...
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