UN warns Albania over return of critics to Turkey, citing risks of torture, enforced...
The UN Human Rights Council sent an urgent communication to the Albanian government requesting the current whereabouts of Selami Şimşek and urging that it...
Turkey had highest number of new applications in 2025 at European human rights court
Turkey had the highest number of new applications filed at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in 2025, according to data from an...
Turkish agricultural engineer goes missing in Rize province
An agricultural engineer, Nuh Yiğit, has disappeared in the Black Sea province of Rize where he went earlier this week to look for a...
Far-right Turkish leader praises police violence against members of religious group
Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has praised the excessive force used by police officers in the southern province...
Erdoğan tells Trump Kurdish militia, Gülenists involved in US protests
The orchestrators of violence and looting during US protests against the death of a black man in police custody were working with the Kurdish...
Jailed İstanbul mayor indicted in ‘political espionage’ case
Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment accusing jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and three others of “political espionage,” opening a public case that could...
Georgian court extends imprisonment of Turkish educator Mustafa Emre Çabuk for 3 months
A Tbilisi court in Georgia has extended the imprisonment of Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who is the principal of Özel Demirel Collge in the country,...
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...
Father of NBA star Enes Kanter acquitted of terrorism charges in Turkey: report
The father of NBA center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s human rights record, has been acquitted of charges...
Turkish court sentences talent manager to 12 years over alleged coup plot
An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced a celebrity talent manager to 12-and-a-half years in prison for aiding an alleged attempt to overthrow the Turkish...
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