67-year-old woman standing trial on terrorism charges for attending fundraisers and religious gatherings
Ulviye Yiğitsözlü, 67, appeared at a hearing yesterday at the Osmaniye 2nd High Criminal Court, where she is being tried on charges of membership...
Court rejects request to acquit 46 defendants in Saturday Mothers trial
An İstanbul court has rejected lawyers’ request for the immediate acquittal of 46 defendants who were indicted for participating in a banned 2018 protest...
Homophobic attack sparks outrage among Turkish social media users amid controversy over the country’s...
Photos of a man identified as Fırat Kaya displaying a person whose face is covered in blood with a caption including the name of...
Mother, son demanding justice in political murder case taken into custody
Turkish police on Thursday detained a woman and her son who have been protesting in front of the Şanlıurfa Courthouse in southeastern Turkey in...
Saturday Mothers trial is part of Turkey’s relentless crackdown on civil society: rights groups
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders have urged Turkish authorities to call for the immediate acquittal of 46 people and guarantee...
Turkey continues arresting Uyghurs during Chinese foreign minister’s official visit to Ankara
The Turkish government is continuing to arrest members of Uyghur diaspora in the country during the official visit of Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang...
Turkey’s far-right MHP spreading racist propaganda abroad, says German gov’t
Turkey's far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has been increasingly exerting influence over the Turkish government and spreading racist propaganda abroad, the German federal government...
Last traces of Ankara’s Jews in peril
The Jewish heritage of Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, which dates back to the 2nd century BC, is faced with destruction as the abandoned homes...
Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention is a ‘worrying step backwards’: UN human rights experts
Turkey’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women, is “a...
Representatives of diplomatic missions visit İHD to show solidarity with Turkey’s human rights defenders
The European Union Delegation to Turkey and representatives from 11 diplomatic missions in Ankara on Tuesday visited Özturk Türkdoğan, head of the Human Rights...
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