Turkish pop music diva attracts Erdoğan’s wrath due to lyrics of 2017 song
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has jumped on the bandwagon of people criticizing and threatening Turkey’s pop music diva, Sezen Aksu, who has been...
Refugee family’s newborn stranded in hospital until family pays bill
A hospital in İstanbul has refused to discharge the newborn baby of a refugee family for the past four months because the family has...
Turkish gov’t covers up killing of lawyer, human rights activist Tahir Elçi
Turkish government has covered up the killing of Tahir Elçi, a Kurdish lawyer, human rights activist and the chairman of Diyarbakır Bar Association, who...
UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
Court sentences 7 journalists to 18 days over photos taken at Kobani hearing
A Turkish court has sentenced seven journalists to 18 days in prison for allegedly recording audio and video during the final hearing of the...
Amnesty launches campaign calling on Turkish authorities to release Boğaziçi protestors
Amnesty International issued an urgent call for action on Friday for the release of protestors including nine people who are in pre-trial detention and...
Police detain 8 lawyers protesting arrest of Cumhuriyet attorneys
Turkish riot police used force to disperse a group of lawyers who held a sit-in protest at the İstanbul Courthouse on Thursday in protest...
Turkey votes over giving extreme powers to autocratic President Erdoğan amid voting frauds
More than 55 million Turkish citizens began voting across the country on Sunday in a historic referendum proposing constitutional changes, including giving extreme and...
My imprisonment is an act of political vengeance: Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu
“My imprisonment is the result of authorities taking revenge for my standing up against human rights violations in Turkey,” said Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a...
Jailed Kurdish politician dies after 6 years of imprisonment
A Kurdish politician who had been behind bars on terrorism charges for six years has died after being taken to a hospital from a...
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