Turkey’s bar associations call on international community to stop China’s treatment of Uyghurs

In a joint statement 73 bar associations across Turkey called on the UN and the international community to initiate targeted sanctions against China in...

Turks, Kurds seeking asylum in Greece harassed, pushed back to Turkey by knife-wielding masked...

Fifty-three asylum seekers, comprising Kurds and Turks fleeing a crackdown on non-loyalist citizens in Turkey, were attacked and forcibly returned to Turkey by unidentified,...

Turkish journalists charged for terror over comments on US-indicted sanction buster Zarrab

A Turkish public prosecutor who accused 29 journalists on terrorism charges cited articles and Twitter messages on US-indicted gold trader Reza Zarrab, who bribed...

Hundreds of thousands lost their jobs in Turkey-Syria earthquake: ILO

Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it...

Justice minister draws criticism, ridicule after praising Turkey’s human rights track record

Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül has been the subject of criticism and ridicule on social media since he praised Turkey’s human rights track record...

Boğaziçi University’s students protest partisan rector appointed by Turkey’s Erdoğan at graduation ceremony

Students at Turkey's prestigious Boğaziçi University staged a protest at their graduation ceremony against its pr0-Erdoğan and partisan rector Mehmed Özkan who was appointed by...

Post-coup prisoner says threatened with rape, beaten almost to death

In the latest of firsthand letters revealing the re-emergence of torture in Turkish prisons, an Antalya arrestee reportedly said he was beaten so badly...

Turkish gov’t detains İstanbul lawyer over her social media posts

Lawyer Sibel Sevinç Deveci has been detained due to social media posts deemed to be propaganda on behalf of the faith-based Gülen movement. Deveci was...

Journalist Güven arrested by an İstanbul court over alleged terror propaganda

Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven, who was detained on May 12 for a report that appeared on the daily’s website about the recent traffic...

Erdoğan calls on gov’t to not allow businessmen to transfer assets out of Turkey

Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday called on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government not to allow some businessmen to...

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