Turkish gov’t reportedly launches food embargo on Kurdish villages
The Turkish government has started to reimplement a food embargo that was in force during the 1990s on Kurdish villages in the eastern and...
DİHA reporter sentenced to 9 years on World Press Freedom Day in Turkey
Mehmet Güleş, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), which was closed by the government following a coup attempt in Turkey on...
HDP deputy calls for investigation into death of Kurdish inmate
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Sait Dede has called for an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Kurdish inmate in eastern...
Pro-Kurdish HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in Turkish police custody
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat...
Survey shows female journalists in Turkey subjected to discrimination, violence
Fifty-five female journalists in Turkey have said they have been subjected to discrimination and violence in the media sector and that they don’t receive...
Tribunal to adjudicate Turkey’s rights record
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey including torture, abductions, shortcomings in freedom...
Hate speech against refugees increases on Turkish social media as a new wave of...
Hate speech against refugees on Turkish social media has increased recently, with a new wave of refugee arrivals in Turkey starting as the Taliban...
103 journalists tried, 10 arrested in Turkey in second quarter of 2025
Turkish authorities arrested 10 journalists and launched new prosecutions against dozens more in the second quarter of 2025, according to a new report by...
Discriminatory amnesty bill passed by Turkish parliament
The Turkish parliament on April 14 passed an early parole bill that will reduce the inmate population in the country’s overcrowded prisons.
Conceived as a...
Justice Ministry withholds data on how many children are accompanying their mothers in prison
Turkey’s Ministry of Justice has given what appears to be an inaccurate response to a parliamentary inquiry regarding the number of children accompanying their...
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