Canadian senator demands accountability for Turkey’s human rights violations

Canadian Senator Leo Housakos has called on Canada and the international community to hold Turkish officials accountable for their alleged human rights violations targeting...

Drug traffickers use Turkey’s citizenship laws to evade trial in Europe: report

Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers are increasingly evading capture by becoming Turkish citizens, VICE World News reported, citing European law enforcement officials. European law enforcement officials, speaking...

Greek journalists file criminal complaint against Turkish officials who destroyed their equipment

Greek journalists, whose equipment was damaged by employees of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) while they were covering the aftermath of massive earthquakes that...

AKP supporter threatens opposition party voters on social media amid upcoming elections 

A man identified as Yusuf Ziya K. in a video posted on social media threatened to target government critics and opposition party voters if the ruling...

Turkish asylum seeker died from torture prior to pushback from Greece: forensics report

Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has revealed the cause of death of a Turkish asylum seeker who crossed the Aegean Sea and was...

Journalist detained in western Turkey after scandalous allegations about failed coup

Turkish police detained a journalist in the western province of Çanakkale in the early hours of Wednesday after he made scandalous allegations about a...

2 more Kurdish journalists sentenced to prison on terrorist propaganda charges

Journalists Mehmet Güleş and İsmail Çoban have been handed down prison sentences by Turkish courts on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda, according to media...

 MSF warns of psychological consequences of quakes in southern Turkey 

Earthquakes that struck southern Turkey in early February have led to less visible but significant psychological consequences for survivors, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also...

Dismissed gov’t official forced to work as mover dies in traffic accident

Ensar Erdem, 47, a former official who was dismissed from Turkey’s Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry by a government decree as part of purges that...

CPJ calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting journalists covering Kurdish issues, release jailed members...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to immediately release all imprisoned members of the press and stop prosecuting journalists who cover Kurdish issues.  The Diyarbakır...

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