Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for at least 271 people over alleged links to...
Turkish government has issued detention warrants for 271 people in Konya, Ankara and İzmir-based investigations on Wednesday as part of its massive post-coup witch...
Turkish gov’t grants poverty certificate to purge-victim businessman after seizing his multi-billion company
Jailed Turkish Businessman Taner Nakıboğlu, the owner of government-seized NAKSAN Holding, a Turkey-based packing company, said during a hearing on Tuesday that before his...
Turkey arrests Council of Europe youth delegate over speech on jailed mayors, police violence
Enes Hocaoğulları, an LGBTQ+ activist and Turkey’s youth delegate to the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, has been arrested over...
Tech giants help Ankara censor online speech on a massive scale: report
Global tech companies are helping the Turkish government censor online speech and identify critics by complying with large numbers of takedown and data requests...
Protests, messages of solidarity, new arrests mark anniversary of İmamoğlu’s imprisonment
The first anniversary of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s imprisonment was marked on Thursday by messages of solidarity from European politicians, a student march in...
Migrant women subject to sexual harassment and physical violence on their journey to Turkey,...
Sociologist Didem Danış has said migrant women face many hurdles on their journey to Turkey, including sexual harassment and physical violence.
Speaking to BBC Turkish...
Turkey faces deepening healthcare crisis as 21,000 specialists quit public hospitals in last 13...
Turkey’s public healthcare system is confronting a growing shortage of doctors, with more than 21,000 specialists having resigned from state hospitals over the past...
Top EU court rules refugee status prevents extradition of Kurdish man to Turkey
The European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a Kurdish man with refugee status in Italy cannot be extradited from Germany to Turkey, where...
Turkish minister of education signals possibility of controversial gender-segregated schooling
Turkish Education Minister Yusuf Tekin in a controversial remark on July 12 emphasized the need to consider gender-segregated schools to cater to conservative families,...
UN committee finds rights violations in case of teacher arrested over Gülen links, calls...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on Turkey to release a teacher who was arrested in 2018 over alleged links to a...
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