ECtHR faults Turkey for arrest of 314 people over Gülen links after failed coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the pretrial detention of 314 people after a failed coup against Turkish President Recep...
Turkish Interior Ministry sends circulars to governor’s offices requesting closer monitoring of student activities
The Turkish Interior Ministry has sent circulars to governor's offices in Turkey requesting that universities closely monitor student activities, raising concerns that government pressure...
Appeals court upholds light sentence given to police officer who killed 2 children with...
A regional appeals court upheld a light prison sentence given to a police officer convicted of killing two children with an armored police vehicle...
Turkish court orders rearrest of journalist a day after release
A Turkish court on Monday ordered the rearrest of local journalist Mehmet Yetim in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa a day after his release...
Turkish police detain 41 in raid on pro-Kurdish HDP meeting
Police on Saturday raided a public meeting held by Turkey’s opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in İstanbul, detaining 41 members of the party and the...
Wages stagnate, cost of living bites: Labor union protests TurkStat over inflation figures
The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) gathered outside the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) in Ankara on Monday to protest the latest inflation data,...
Turkish police briefly detain 14 members of Saturday Mothers
Fourteen people from the Saturday Mothers , a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police...
Turkey marks Universal Children’s Day amid widespread children’s rights violations: report
Turkey is celebrating Universal Children’s Day this year in an environment where dozens of children have died in work-related accidents and access to education...
Families of Turkey’s post-coup purge victims call for justice a decade on
Relatives of people imprisoned or dismissed from public service after a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016 have called on authorities to end what...
Pro-Kurdish journalists say Turkish gov’t asked them to work as spies
Pro-Kurdish journalists Durket Süren and Nurcan Yalçın, who were reporters for the Jinnews news agency, have said they were asked while in police custody...
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