Journalist Gültaşlı highlights double standards of int’l press and rights bodies for jailed Turkish...
Ahead of the second anniversary of the seizure of the Zaman Media Group by a government led by autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Turkish PM Yıldırım says the government to extend emergency rule
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced on Friday that Turkish government is planning to extend the state of emergency on July 18 after...
Turkish purge victims Gülmen and Özakça end hunger strike, vow to take fight to...
Educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça ended their 324-day-long hunger strike after the State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission rejected their requests to return...
Turkey’s ruling AKP votes down probe on Paradise Papers at Parliament
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voted down a parliamentary motion to investigate revelations in recent leaks of offshore financial dealings by high level...
Turkish goverment says 560 children kept in prisons along with mothers across Turkey
560 children, aged between 0 to 6, are being held in Turkish prisons along with their mothers, according to data given by Turkey's Justice...
Jailed teacher had to send baby away due to poor conditions in Turkish prison
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...
Amnesty chief to ask EU’s Mogherini to raise arrest of HR activists with Turkish...
Amnesty International Secretary-General Salil Shetty is to meet with High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on Tuesday...
Erdoğan proposed swapping Turkish asylum seekers for jailed Germans
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in September proposed to Berlin a swap of some Turks who took refuge in Germany for German citizens...
Turkish military returns to 1930s practices due to unending post-coup purges, report says
Similar to the post-Independence War period and the early 1930s in Turkey, most brigades are now commanded by colonels and captains due to a...
Report: Turkish people prefer closed messaging services for sharing news
Mainstream media in Turkey are losing their monopoly in agenda setting with the emergence of digital news sites, while fear of state surveillance has...
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Turkey's political opposition faced intensifying pressure in 2025, with the judiciary emerging as the primary instrument for targeting dissenting voices. The most far-reaching measures...
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Throughout the year human rights organizations...
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