ICU patients left to die in undamaged hospital in quake-stricken Hatay: report
Authorities at a hospital in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, which was hit by two major earthquakes last year, allegedly left some 20 patients...
Asylum-seeking Turkish teacher and her 3 children stranded at Paris airport
A Turkish teacher and her three children have been stranded at an airport in Paris for 10 days waiting to be deported after French...
46 European Parliament members call on EU to initiate targeted sanctions against Erdoğan government
Forty-six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from different political parties and groups in a letter on Monday to EU High Representative for Foreign...
One more person detained in Turkey for wearing ‘hero’ T-shirt
One man was detained in Adana province on Monday as part of a witch-hunt targeting people wearing T-shirts bearing the word “hero,” Cumhuriyet daily...
Religious communities in Turkey face systematic rights violations, US report says
Religious communities in Turkey face systematic and severe violations of their religious freedom, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its...
Exiled Turkish lawyers blast Turkish Bar Association for its silence
An advocacy group set up by exiled Turkish lawyers has decried the silence of Turkish Bar Association (TBB) in the face of massive crackdown...
Turkey’s OHAL Commission rules in favor of only 1,900 out of 30,000 applicants dismissed...
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) has examined the cases of 30,000 applicants who were dismissed by government decrees under a...
Prison authorities confiscate belongings of inmates who complained about overcrowding
Prison authorities in western Turkey's Denizli T-Type Prison confiscated the personal belongings of female inmates who complained about overcrowding in cells, the Bold Medya...
Gov’t to purge 300K more civil servants once it wins referendum, CHP deputy says
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Muharrem İnce claimed on Friday that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is planning to...
Turkey detains 73 over Gülen links in defiance of ECtHR ruling
Turkish police have detained 73 people across 16 provinces in the last four days over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior...
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