Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention poses dangerous risks for region: HRW
In its statement on the 10th anniversary of the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against...
Lawyers appeal to top court for Öğüt family members killed in Kurdish village fire
Lawyers for the Öğüt family, nine members of which died in a blaze in Turkey’s southeastern village of Altınova (Vartinis), have appealed to the...
Turkish Embassy spied on Erdoğan critics in Angola
The Turkish Embassy in Luanda, the capital of Angola, which is situated on the west coast of southern Africa, has engaged in a large-scale...
Court orders supervised release of Islamic preacher critical of AKP gov’t
A local court has released Alparslan Kuytul, leader of the Furkan Foundation — an anti-government religious group — who was detained earlier this week...
Toddler, jailed with his mother when 60 days old, still suffers the consequences
Muaz Bahadır, a 2-year-old boy who had to stay in prison for 13 months with his mother, still suffers from a problem with the...
Turkish student combat pilot, top in his class and awarded by the US Air...
Turkey jailed one of its the best and brightest lieutenants who was on his way to becoming a top-gun combat pilot after receiving multiple...
Turkish diplomats spied on Erdoğan critics in Nepal, triggered criminal investigation, documents reveal
The Turkish government used its diplomats to profile opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Nepal and gather intelligence about them to help...
Armenian MP Paylan: I will never give up my fight for Turkey’s democratization
Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was threatened by far-right independent member of the Turkish Parliament Ümit Özdağ...
Roma conscript dies under suspicious circumstances following hate speech by his commander
Caner Sarmaşık, 20, a conscript who was being targeted for being a Roma, died allegedly by suicide while on guard duty on April 29,...
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Memmedov found dead in İstanbul
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Memmedov was found dead in İstanbul yesterday after disappearing for three days, Turkish media reported.
Friends of Memmedov had reported him missing...
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