Authorities at Ankara’s Sincan Prison are arbitrarily revoking parole rights of political prisoners
Prison authorities in Ankara’s notorious Sincan Prison have been arbitrarily revoking political prisoners’ right to parole, the Tr724 news website reported.
According to prisoners, they are...
Wife of inmate suffering from brain tumors says husband’s health has taken a turn...
Züleyha Koç, the wife of inmate Lütfi Koç, who is suffering from brain tumors, said on Twitter that her husband's health had taken a...
Turkey’s İstanbul Municipality removes Trump’s name from metro underpass
The city council of İstanbul on Friday overwhelmingly voted to remove US President Donald Trump's name from a pedestrian underpass in the bustling business...
Over 2,700 young workers died in occupational accidents in Turkey since 2013
At least 2,728 young workers have died in occupational accidents in Turkey since 2013, according to a new report by the Health and Safety Labor Watch...
Funding for humanitarian operations in Syria, neighboring host countries at critical low: IOM
Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) António Vitorino has raised the alarm over the lack of adequate funding for humanitarian operations required to...
Municipality demolishes headquarters of TV station shut down over Gülen links
Municipal teams in İstanbul on Tuesday demolished the former headquarters of Samanyolu TV, one of the country’s major networks before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...
2 Turkish women who fled crackdown jailed in Malta for using forged travel documents
Two Turkish women, both teachers who fled Turkey to avoid a government crackdown in the aftermath of a coup attempt in 2016, were arrested...
Amnesty says arrest of construction workers ‘an attempt to stifle dissent’
Human rights group Amnesty International has slammed a recent order by an İstanbul court to arrest 24 construction workers and union leaders pending trial...
İstanbul Bar executive freed pending trial on terrorism charges
Fırat Epözdemir, a board member of the İstanbul Bar Association who is standing trial on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and disseminating...
CPJ calls on Turkey to hold all involved in assault of local journalist to...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to hold to account all those involved in the recent assault of local journalist Sinan Aygül.
Aygül, editor-in-chief of...
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