Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair Taner Kılıç released after nearly 8 months in jail
An İstanbul court ordered on Wednesday the release of Taner Kılıç, the president of Turkey’s branch of international human rights group Amnesty International.
“It is an...
Disabled teacher not granted release on probation after medical report found him fit to...
A disabled prison inmate who, according to his wife, cannot take care of his personal needs on his own was denied the opportunity for...
Erdoğan: Putin said Turkey’s presidential palace is ‘sign of a great state’
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin said when he saw the presidential palace in Ankara that...
Bodies of pregnant woman and young girl found on Evros River
The bodies of a pregnant woman, around 35 years of age, and a young girl, around 10, were found in different spots on the...
Funds to Erdoğan’s media by state banks kept secret from Turkey’s Parliament
Turkish government hid behind ‘client privacy’ and ‘trade secret’ protections in revealing how much credit and advertisement payments by state-lenders was funneled to pro-government...
Turkish gov’t detains some 170 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police detained some 170 people during operations across Turkey on Friday as part of the Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
EU chiefs express deep concerns on rights in Turkey to Erdoğan
The European Union’s top two officials said Tuesday they expressed deep concerns about human rights in Turkey in their first meeting in a year...
Female journalists say Turkish police beat them, threatened rape during raid
A group of journalists said Turkish police beat them and threatened them with rape during a raid on the office of a pro-Kurdish newspaper...
Turkey’s top judicial body launches inquiry into court that reinstated Kurdish mayor’s political rights
One day after Turkey’s election authority decided to reinstall a Kurdish politician who had been initially denied the mandate to serve as mayor of the eastern province of...
Increasing individual armament in Turkey leads to 1,575 deaths in 2017
At least 1,575 people have lost their lives in 2,525 firearm incidents this year until September 22, 2017 according to a report released by...
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