Post-coup purge in Turkey leaves children parentless after mother and father are put behind...

Turkey’s post-coup purge is continuing to hit children, leaving them parentless in myriad cases, shattering their families, disrupting their education and upending their emotional...

Greece to extend fence on land border with Turkey to deter migrants: report

Greece will proceed with plans to extend a cement and barbed-wire fence that it set up in 2012 along its northern border with Turkey...

Turkish Constitutional Court’s new mission is to ignore and legitimize unlawful acts, says jailed...

Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan said in the aftermath of a coup attempt in 2016 the Turkish Constitutional Court...
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Lawyer arrested based on doctored documents has been in prison for 56 months

Turan Canpolat (51), a lawyer who was arrested based on doctored documents on January 30, 2016, has remained in isolation for 56 months, TR...

Serious backsliding in democracy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms continues in Turkey: EU

Serious backsliding in the respect for democratic standards, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms continued in the absence of an effective checks and...

Iranian anti-hijab activist held in repatriation center in Turkey faces risk of deportation

Nasibe Shemsai, 36, an Iranian activist known for protesting the mandatory hijab law in Iran who fled to Turkey, is now in a repatriation...

BBC report: Women with 6-month-old infants in jail due to emergency rule in Turkey

Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to...

Turkish judge on European rights court acts as Erdoğan’s Trojan horse

The judge representing Turkey on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) dissents from majority opinions in cases whose applicants are political critics of Turkish President...

IHD, Saturday Mothers call for effective investigation into disappearance of former bureaucrat

The Human Rights Association (İHD) asked Turkish authorities to urgently find Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former bureaucrat who has been missing since December 29,...

Turkey’s state-run news agency harasses Turkish rights activist in the US over Times Square...

Three employees of Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) harassed the president of US-based advocacy organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) on Sunday after...
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