Court acquits police officer who hit and killed 5-year-old with armored car in SE...
A Turkish court has ruled to acquit police officer İdris A., who caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in southeastern Turkey in 2019...
Opposition MP to take Ankara bar’s decision not to publish torture report to UN...
Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has said he will take a decision made by the Ankara Bar...
Turkey’s top court finds no rights violation in cases of 2 dismissed mayors
The Turkish Constitutional Court has found no violation of rights in the cases of two former mayors from pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır...
Turkish prosecutor asks to pass Khashoggi case to S.Arabia: report
A Turkish prosecutor on Thursday asked an İstanbul court to dismiss a case into the gruesome murder of Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi and transfer...
35 percent of Syrian children in Turkey unable to attend school: report
A recent report by the Turkish Ministry of Education has revealed that 35 percent of Syrian refugee children living in Turkey were not attending...
ECtHR rules Turkey violated prisoners’ rights by uploading their correspondence to judicial network server
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the right to respect for private life of 14 inmates by uploading...
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...
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