Opposition party calls for investigation into death of Kurdish teenager in police target practice...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has called for an investigation into the death of Muharrem Aksem in a police target practice area in...
Turkey’s main opposition accused of hypocrisy in stance on replacement of pro-Kurdish mayors
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was accused of hypocrisy for its support of the Turkish government’s practice of removing mayors –- mostly...
Turkish university sparks outrage for quoting Hitler on official human rights website
The Manisa Celal Bayar University in western Turkey sparked outrage among human rights activists and social media users for quoting Adolf Hitler on its...
Greek border guards send Turkish asylum seekers back home to be arrested
A group of Turkish asylum seekers over the weekend were pushed back to Turkey by Greek border guards and arrested upon arrival, the Bold...
Thousands of migrants illegally deported from Turkey, says Syrian Associations Platform chairman
Mehdi Davud, chairman of the Syrian Associations Platform (Suriyeli Dernekler Platformu), in an interview said thousands of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq had...
Asylum seekers in Germany speak about mistreatment in Turkish detention centers
A group of Turkish asylum seekers on Monday spoke about the mistreatment they faced in Turkish detention centers during an event in the German...
Serious and credible allegations of torture and other ill-treatment made in Turkey last year:...
An annual report by Amnesty International (AI) on the state of human rights in the world reveals that serious and credible allegations of torture...
Forensics council shouldn’t be only decision-maker in ill inmates’ cases, medical union chair says
Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a prominent human rights activist, doctor of forensic medicine and head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), has said Turkey’s Council...
Death of Kurdish teenager in police target practice area might be explosion-related: report
The death of Muharrem Aksem, a Kurdish teenager whose body was found in a police target practice area in southeastern Turkey on March 24,...
115 Turkish journalists subjected to violence, 241 appeared before a judge in 2021: report
One hundred fifteen journalists were subjected to physical violence in Turkey last year, and three out of every five journalists have received threats during...
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