Turkey detains pro-Kurdish party officials, renowned rights activist
Turkish police on Friday detained dozens of pro-Kurdish party officials and a renowned human rights activist, as prosecutors increase the pressure on the country’s...
Mother of 19-month-old sent to prison with her toddler over Gülen links
Rukiye Güler, a homemaker with three children, was sent to prison to serve a six-year, three month sentence for alleged links to the Gülen...
UN experts request investigation into human rights violations committed by Turkish-backed mercenaries in Libya
The United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries in a statement yesterday urged Turkey, Russia and Libya to investigate human rights violations...
Turkish parliament’s decision to expel Gergerlioğlu is another blow to democracy, say PACE monitors
The stripping of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu’s mandate is “another and repeated blow” that undermines parliamentary rights and immunity in...
3 transexual women attacked in one week as violence against LGBT+ community increases in...
The LGBT+ community in Turkey witnessed multiple acts of violence against its members last week with at least three transexual women suffering injuries or...
İstanbul mayor gets fine on charges of insulting governor
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has been ordered by a court to pay a fine of TL 7,080 ($930) for insulting a former governor in...
Uyghur women marching from İstanbul to Ankara, demand Turkey help find their children in...
A group of Uyghur women in Turkey started a march from İstanbul to Ankara on Wednesday demanding that the Turkish government help locate their...
Court releases 2 Boğaziçi students from pre-trial detention in case involving Kaaba poster
An İstanbul court has released two Boğaziçi University students from pre-trial detention in the first hearing of a case in which they, along with...
Turkey’s move to ban HDP worries international community and rights organizations
The international community and human rights organizations have criticized Turkey’s move towards banning the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the third largest group in...
Turkey objected to participation of Japanese bar association federation and John Jay College at...
The Turkish government filed an objection with the United Nations to the participation of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) and the John...
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Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions.
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