Journalist Aslıhan Gençay disciplined for objecting to unlawful strip search in prison
Aslıhan Gençay, a former columnist for the Bianet and Siyasi Haber news websites, was disciplined for objecting to an unlawful strip search in central...
Nearly one in four young people in Turkey neither working nor in school, official...
Nearly one in four young people in Turkey were neither in education nor employment in 2025, with the rate rising to 30.9 percent among...
Hakan Şükür to the NYT: I wouldn’t be so selfish to just defend my...
Hakan Şükür (46), who is now selling coffee in a bakery in Palo Alto, California, despite the fact that he is one of Turkey’s most...
Trial concerning murder of former Grey Wolves leader begins in Ankara
An Ankara court on Monday began the trial of 22 suspects accused of the premeditated murder of Sinan Ateş, an academic and former leader...
Pop singer’s arrest slammed for displaying politicization of Turkish judiciary
The recent arrest of famous Turkish pop singer and songwriter Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu, part of an investigation into her due to remarks that allegedly...
Inmate dies of COVID-19 after denied treatment for days
Hüseyin Özen, who had previously been self-medicating for a cold, died of COVID-19 on November 14 after spending 15 days in intensive care, Bold...
Turkish opposition documents 193 cases of prison torture, mistreatment in March human rights report
Turkey’s main opposition party said Thursday it had documented 193 cases of alleged torture and ill-treatment in prisons in March and that journalists, protesters...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 315 more military personnel over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish government issued detention warrants for 315 military officers across Turkey on Friday as part of a massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
RSF calls on Turkey to reinstate Açık Radyo’s broadcasting license
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Turkish judicial authorities to overturn a decision by country’s broadcasting and streaming regulator to rescind independent radio station Açık...
Corruption investigations into Turkey’s AKP gov’t will be relaunched, says opposition lawmaker
Levent Gök, a lawmaker from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has said they intend to reopen the December 17-25, 2013 bribery and...
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