There are clear indications of the existence of hit lists targeting Turkish government critics...
There are clear indications of hit lists targeting Turkish government critics in Germany, Interior Ministry Undersecretary Dr. Helmut Teichmann said in response to a...
48 bar associations condemn pro-government newspaper for targeting colleagues protesting hate crimes against Kurds
Forty-eight Turkish bar associations on Sunday condemned the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily for targeting 15 bar associations that have protested hate crimes against Kurdish...
109 journalists appeared in court in Turkey in May, June: report
Although the number of journalists jailed in Turkey’s prisons has begun to drop, journalists continue to face legal action for doing their job, with...
Kurdish author on hit list targeting AKP critics in exile attacked in Wales
Gökhan Yavuzel, a Kurdish writer in Wales whose name is on a hit list targeting critics of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government...
Decline in Turks’ confidence in judiciary, satisfaction with education highest among OECD members: report
Turkey was the country that saw the steepest decline in confidence in the judiciary and satisfaction with the education system among Organization for Economic...
Opposition MP submits 4th parliamentary question regarding abuse in repatriation center
Murat Bakan, a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), submitted his fourth parliamentary question regarding claims of abuse and mistreatment at...
95,000 people await acquittal based on ECtHR’s ByLock ruling
Thousands of people arrested or convicted on terrorism charges due to their alleged use of the ByLock mobile phone application expect to be acquitted...
Growing number of farm laborers in Turkey are victims of occupational accidents
Seasonal farm laborers have increasingly been the victims of sometimes fatal work-related accidents in Turkey according to Ömer Fethi Gürer, a deputy from the...
German police tell former MP he’s on hit list targeting gov’t critics in exile
The German Federal Police have warned Hasip Kaplan, a former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), of a planned assassination targeting him...
Disabled girl forced to leave special needs school due to father’s links to Gülen...
Nurefşan Ketenci, 16, a young girl with major disabilities who had been forced to leave a public special needs school in Turkey because her...
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