Fights between Turkey’s ruling AKP and pro-Kurdish DBP leave 4 dead

A series of fights in Şanlıurfa on Thursday between a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) campaign team and the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party...

Engineer who drowned while fleeing Turkey was tortured in custody

Computer engineer Murat Zümre, who drowned in the Maritsa River while trying to flee to Greece, was tortured while he was in detention, a...

Zaman employee says in Turkish court facing life sentence due to a TV commercial

Yakup Şimşek (53), the brand marketing manager of now-closed Zaman daily, one-time best-selling newspaper in Turkey, has said he is facing a life sentence...

Turkish gov’t continues to accuse Wikipedia of ‘manipulation,’ keeps site’s ban in Turkey

The Turkey's Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) on Wednesday has attacked Wikipedia, charging the online encyclopedia with manipulating the public over recent remarks by the...

50 noncommissioned officers detained over alleged coup involvement

A total of 50 noncommissioned officers in 14 provinces have been detained by police over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish...

Turkey drops to 118th place in 2025 global rule of law index

Turkey was ranked 118th among 143 countries in the 2025 “WJP Rule of Law Index” published by the World Justice Project on Wednesday, dropping one place...

HRW examines what constitutional reforms mean for human rights situation in Turkey

Turkey will hold a referendum on April 16, 2017, on constitutional amendments that would change the structure of governance in the country from a...

German supreme court halts deportation of Turkish citizen due to torture in Turkey

Germany’s supreme court has halted the deportation of a Turkish citizen convicted of supporting an radical Islamist militant organisation on Tuesday, saying authorities should...

Turkey’s Erdoğan claims US has no respect for the law

Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday continued targeting the United States over the conviction in a New York court of Turkish banker...

Turkish authorities impose advertising ban on Evrensel daily over critical reporting

Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, has imposed a 10-day advertising ban on...
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