Turkish security forces’ abandoned ammunitions kill 18 children in last 20 months
At least 18 children have lost their lives and 33 more have been wounded in the last 20 months in the blasts of explosive...
İstanbul mayor defiant as interior ministry accuses his staff of terrorist links
A defiant İstanbul mayor on Monday called on the country’s interior minister to resign in the wake of an investigation launched by the ministry...
Turkey hasn’t shown much improvement in human rights within past year: EP rapporteur
Nacho Sánchez Amor, an MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, said there hasn’t been...
Turkish gov’t sentences journalist Türfent to 8 years and 9 months in prison
Journalist Nedim Türfent received threats of execution during the period of the curfews and has been in prison for 19 months for his journalistic...
Top court sees no rights violation in punishment of teachers for mother tongue protest
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found no rights violation in a disciplinary punishment given to 22 teachers who staged a protest about the importance of...
Report: 409 women killed, 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017
A total of 409 women were killed and 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will...
Top court finds rights violation in terror conviction of teacher in Gülen-linked case
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the conviction of a teacher on terrorism charges over his alleged links to the Gülen movement violated his...
Italian lawyers call interlocutors of Erdoğan in Rome to raise voice against his systematic...
Italian national bar association, "Unione delle Camere Penali Italiene (UCPI)", has called on all Italian interlocutors of the Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not...
Court halts trial of MP in MİT trucks case due to parliamentary immunity
A high criminal court in İstanbul has decided to halt the trial of an opposition lawmaker due to his acquisition of parliamentary immunity in...
Turkish journalist Yazgan sentenced to 9 years in prison based on anonymous letter
Vahit Yazgan, the former bureau chief of the shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, was sentenced to eight years, nine months...
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