Reza Zarrab: Turkey’s Çağlayan given 45-50 million euros, $7 million and 4,5 million liras...

Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader whose prosecution in Manhattan has drawn sharp criticism from Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said during his...

Turkish authorities release ailing 86-year-old Kurdish prisoner to house arrest over health concerns

Turkish authorities have released an 86-year-old Kurdish man to house arrest in southeastern Hakkari province due to serious health problems, the Mezopotamya News Agency reported. Süleyman Sabri Mavi...

Lawyer faces defamation trial after strip-search claim

Betül Alpay, a Turkish lawyer, is facing a defamation trial after publicly claiming she was subjected to an unlawful strip-search in a prison, the...

5 ISIL militants who killed 3 police officers in Turkey had been acquitted months...

Five of the six Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who shot three police officers dead in a pre-dawn raid in...

İHD co-chair files complaint against prison guards who allegedly beat and sexually harassed female...

Human Rights Association (İHD) co-chair and lawyer Eren Keskin filed a complaint last week against prison guards who allegedly beat and sexually harassed a...

Turkey’s former top scorer Zafer Biryol detained in post-coup investigation

Zafer Biryol, a former top scorer at Turkey’s national football league was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement early Friday. The...

162 workers killed in workplace accidents in the first month of the year in...

According to the data compiled by the Workers’ Health and Occupational Safety Assembly, at least 161 workers have lost their lives in workplace accidents...

Turkish court seeks extradition of exiled journalist Arslan with fabricated murder document

The Turkish judiciary has prepared fabricated documents to assure the issuance by Interpol of a Red Notice for the extradition of veteran Turkish journalist...

Jailed Turkish philanthropist awaits his fate under Erdoğan’s wrath

Jailed without a conviction since 2017, Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala says he feels like a tool in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attempts to blame...

Jailed journalist Soncan: ‘A nation could never be free if its journalists are behind...

A jailed Turkish journalist presented an impressive defense to the court, saying that the history will judge Turkey on rights violations and declared a...
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