TurkStat releases death statistics after a two-year break during pandemic
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), which had controversially stopped releasing death statistics during the coronavirus pandemic, has published the death statistics for the years...
ECtHR faults Turkey for monitoring 3 inmates’ meetings with lawyers
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkish authorities’ monitoring and recording of three applicants’ meetings with their lawyers while they...
Turkey’s main opposition CHP announces Muharrem İnce as presidential candidate
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday announced CHP Yalova deputy Muharrem İnce as its candidate for the June 24 snap presidential...
Turkish prosecutors indict woman arrested due to remarks in street interview
Turkish prosecutors have indicted a woman who was arrested earlier this week over remarks critical of the government she made in a street interview, charging her...
Turkey detains 139 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 133 people due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, according to...
HDP says gov’t has given security forces a blank check for civilian killings in...
Amid news stories that a Turkish drone attack killed one civilian and wounded three others in Hakkari on Friday, pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP)...
Turkey arrests 9 journalists working for pro-Kurdish media
Nine out of 11 journalists working for pro-Kurdish news outlets who were detained in police operations last week were arrested on Saturday, Turkish Minute...
Erdoğan adviser signals possible break with European rights system after Kavala ruling
A senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suggested that Turkey could reconsider its participation in the European human rights system after...
Turkish court denies request by cancer patient boy’s jailed father for release
Ender Özkul, the jailed father of a 13-year-old cancer patient who has failed to respond to treatment so far, was denied release from prison...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s personal war game in Syria using the Turkish military
By Abdullah Bozkurt
US military planners in the Department of Defense long ago made a calculated decision to not trust the regime of Turkish President...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...