Syrian refugee who lost entire family in fire says they were evicted from their...
Hussein Aljasem, a Syrian refugee who lost his six children, his wife and two nephews in a fire caused by a coal burning stove...
Turkey’s RTÜK rains down sanctions on TV stations
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s broadcasting and streaming regulator, has imposed administrative fines and temporary broadcast halts on a number of...
EP Turkey rapporteur says linking Sweden’s NATO bid to Turkey’s EU process would be...
Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, has said it would be wrong to connect Sweden’s entry to NATO and the process for...
Expelled rights advocate MP Gergerlioğlu was handcuffed in intensive care following an angiogram
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights advocate and former deputy for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was handcuffed in the intensive care unit...
Romanian journalists call for release of imprisoned Turkish colleagues
Romanian journalists and representatives of several NGOs called for the Turkish government to release imprisoned journalists immediately at an event organized in the Romanian...
Turkish social media personality gets 11-month suspended sentence over headscarf video
A Turkish court has handed down an 11-month suspended sentence to social media personality and singer Murat Övüç for insulting religious values in a...
Turkey’s top court annuls interior minister’s broad powers over civil society organizations
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has cancelled certain provisions of a 2020 law that granted the authority to the interior minister to suspend board members and...
Turkish President Erdoğan files criminal complaint against CHP head Kılıçdaroğlu
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed a criminal complaint on Wednesday against main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for his...
Tragedy off Greek coast as 42 migrants attempt journey from Turkey, 4 dead
Three children and a woman were killed Sunday after a boat carrying 42 migrants from Turkey sank off the Greek island of Leros, Agence...
Turkey leads world again in Twitter censorship
Twitter’s latest government transparency report has revealed the extent of the Turkish government crackdown on social media, once again making the country the leader...
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