Women’s rights group takes Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention to European rights court
A women’s rights group has taken Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the country’s Constitutional...
20 women killed by men, 22 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Twenty women were murdered by men in Turkey in September and another 22 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Caregiver of autistic teenager suffering from epilepsy arrested for Gülen links
Eyüp Çetin, the father and caregiver of a 15-year-old autistic boy suffering from epilepsy and hypotonia, a muscle disease, was arrested on Saturday over...
Prosecutors seek arrest of 206 people in İstanbul over protests
Turkish prosecutors have requested the pretrial detention of 206 people including protestors, journalists and others taken into custody in İstanbul since the detention and...
Turkish Embassy in Sweden spied on exiled journalist and critics, documents reveal
In a blatant violation of international conventions, Turkish diplomats and consular officers in Sweden have gathered intelligence about exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt and...
Turkish journalist living in exile attacked outside home in Germany
Erk Acarer, a Turkish journalist who is critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and has been living in exile in Germany, said he...
Turkish gov’t continues to fuel a political environment hostile to minorities, US religious freedom...
The Turkish government has continued to engage in action, deliberate inaction and rhetoric to fuel a political environment hostile to religious minorities, the United...
Turkish authorities forcibly deport 300 Eritreans despite high risk of human rights violations: UN...
The Turkish government forcibly deported 300 Eritrean migrants to their home country, where they face a grave risk of human rights violations, according to...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of pro-Kurdish HDP, DBP members in İstanbul and İzmir
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office in İstanbul’s Kadikoy district was raided by the police early Tuesday while 55 members of HDP and...
EP members slam Pakistan: Gülen-linked schools contribute to education, social coexistence
Some members of the European Parliament have strongly condemned the Supreme Court of Pakistan for a ruling in December recognizing former staff members of...
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