Appeals court upholds prison sentence handed down to human rights defender and opposition MP...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on Friday to uphold a two-and-a-half-year sentence handed down to human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
Turkish colleagues appeal int’l community for Journalist Parıldak: Please be Ayşenur’s hope, before it’s...
A group of Turkish journalists who identify themselves as "Ayşenur’s Journalist Colleagues" have appealed the international community and international civil society organizations to "do not leave...
13 participants in Women’s Day’s march in İstanbul detained on Erdoğan insult charges
Turkish police have detained 13 women including a minor who took part in a march to mark International Women’s Day on March 8 in...
Turkey’s espionage activities in Malaysia exposed as more details uncovered
The abductions, detentions and extraditions of three Turkish nationals in Malaysia as part of clandestine operation by Turkey’s state security services in cooperation with...
Saturday Mothers trial is part of Turkey’s relentless crackdown on civil society: rights groups
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders have urged Turkish authorities to call for the immediate acquittal of 46 people and guarantee...
Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan says 176 of 177 journalists in jail on terrorism charges
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said 176 of 177 journalists in prison in Turkey are there due to their ties to terrorist...
Opposition deputy takes deportation of Iranian asylum seekers to parliament
Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, a deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has submitted a parliamentary question about Turkish authorities' decision to deport four Iranian...
Families of abducted Gülen followers in Turkey talk to BBC
The families of abducted Gülen followers, whose abductions have been confirmed by eyewitnesses, have spoken to BBC Turkish service.
Eleven people have been reported missing...
Cancer patient whose treatment was interrupted after arrest suffering from complications
Ayşe Özdoğan, 33, who suffers from a rare form of cancer, has been struggling with complications since the disease spread to her head because...
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls opposition leader ‘coward,’ promises to cut off traitors’ heads
Enraged at the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu calling the July 15, 2016 coup attempt a “controlled coup” Turkey's autocratic...
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