Turkey accuses Greece of new migrant pushbacks
Turkey has rescued 95 migrants from three overloaded boats in the Aegean Sea, the interior ministry said on Monday, accusing Greece of pushing back...
Local journalist briefly detained for reporting on sexual harassment of child in SE Turkey
A local journalist has been briefly detained for sharing a video of an elderly man sexually harassing a 2-year-old girl in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa...
384,000 refugees in Turkey to need resettlement next year: UNHCR
A total of 384,070 refugees in Turkey are projected to be in need of resettlement in 2024, according to a recent report by the...
Pride march bans follow intensification of anti-LGBT discourse by Turkish officials: HRW
The banning of Pride marches in Turkey for the ninth consecutive year follow an intensification of hateful anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) discourse...
More than a third of inmates in Europe are in Turkey’s prisons, CoE data...
Turkey is by far the leader in the number of prisoners in Europe, according to the 2022 Council of Europe (CoE) Annual Penal Statistics...
Turkey arrests journalist for remarks on jailed PKK leader
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled to arrest a journalist on charges of disseminating terrorism propaganda due to his televised remarks about Abdullah Öcalan,...
PACE reveals Turkey’s tactics in its first resolution on transnational repression
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in its first resolution condemning all forms of transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule...
Turkish police detain over 160 people at Pride marches in İstanbul and İzmir
Turkish police on Sunday detained 113 people at a Pride march in İstanbul, with another 50 detained at a similar event İzmir, in what...
Political prisoners to be left out of Turkish government’s general amnesty bill
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is preparing to grant amnesty to a large number individuals currently serving prison sentences, with the exception...
Turks, Kurds seeking asylum in Greece harassed, pushed back to Turkey by knife-wielding masked...
Fifty-three asylum seekers, comprising Kurds and Turks fleeing a crackdown on non-loyalist citizens in Turkey, were attacked and forcibly returned to Turkey by unidentified,...
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