Turkish Twitter users commemorate Ankara train station bombing victims and demand justice
Turkish Twitter users started a hashtag campaign yesterday commemorating the victims of bombings at the Ankara train station 2,000 days after they occurred and...
Turkey seeks to prosecute pop star Mabel Matiz over same-sex dance scene
Turkish prosecutors have indicted Mabel Matiz, one of Turkey’s most prominent openly queer pop artists, on obscenity charges over a scene in one of...
Erdoğan targets LGBT, describes its influence as ‘tyranny’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan renewed his verbal attacks on the LGBT community on Tuesday, labeling its influence as a form of "tyranny that...
Turkish soldiers allegedly torture two Iranian men at border post, killing one
Two Iranian smugglers were allegedly subjected to abuse and torture at an army post on the Iranian border in the Turkish province of Van,...
Turkish actress released after detention over İzmir mayor’s switch to Erdoğan’s party
Turkish actress and television presenter Berna Laçin was released Thursday after being detained Wednesday over a social media post criticizing the mayor of İzmir...
Turkish judge removed from bench following allegations of threat, blackmail
Turkey’s Ministry of Justice has announced the dismissal of a judge implicated in a number of allegations including threats, blackmail, bribery and substance abuse,...
Gendarmerie commander responsible for burning down Kurdish village, killing 9, Turkish court says
Bülent Karaoğlu, a former gendarmerie officer, was responsible for the burning down of the southeastern Turkish village of Altınova (Vartinis) in 1993, which caused...
474 detained after anti-Syrian riots spread across Turkey in xenophobic outburst
Turkish police detained 474 people involved in a wave of anti-Syrian riots, leading to widespread property damage and heightened tensions across the country after...
Turkey’s spy agency forcibly returns Gülen’s nephew from Kenya
Turkish spies have arrested and brought back to Turkey a nephew living in Kenya of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is accused by the...
Turkish police intervene in teachers’ protest, detain 15
The police in Ankara on Tuesday night forcibly broke up a protest staged by an education workers labor union, detaining 15 teachers, the Artı...
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