Greece seeks EU-Turkey migration deal expansion: minister
Greece in December will seek the renewal of a 2016 migration deal between the EU and Turkey, the Greek migration minister said Saturday, Agence...
Turkish police detain 80 students protesting high housing prices
Eighty students who were spending the night in parks to protest high housing prices were detained by police Monday evening in İstanbul's Moda Park...
Turkish police detain pro-Kurdish HDP politicians including former deputy in Ankara
Turkish police detained six executives of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), including the HDP's former Şanlıurfa deputy İbrahim Binici, in Ankara on Saturday...
Turkey’s ‘pit-type’ prisons under fire amid hunger strikes, rights concerns
Rights groups and inmates have stepped up criticism of Turkey’s high-security “pit-type” prisons, saying detainees face overcrowding, lack of sunlight and medical neglect, according...
At least 40 child workers died in Turkey in first 8 months of 2023:...
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Fethi Açıkel has announced that at least 40 child workers in Turkey lost their lives, in the...
Deceased Kurdish politician sentenced to 9 years on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of eight years, nine months to a Kurdish politician who died of cancer four years...
Turkish court rules for continuation of TRT employees’ imprisonment over alleged Gülen links
A court in Ankara ruled on Wednesday for a continuation of the imprisonment of nine dismissed employees of Turkey's state broadcaster TRT during a...
Syrians repatriated from Turkey grapple with dire conditions
Syrian refugees have been struggling with unemployment, crumbling infrastructure and dangerous living conditions after being returned to Syria through Turkey's "voluntary return project," the...
Turkey’s top appeals court says former interior minister should pay damages to academic over...
The Supreme Court of Appeals has said in a judgment that former interior minister Süleyman Soylu should pay non-pecuniary damages to academic Baskın Oran...
Twitter’s lawyer in Turkey tweets hate speech against Gülen movement
Lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, who represents Twitter in Turkey, used hate speech against supporters of the Gülen movement in a series of tweets on Saturday,...
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