European MPs who paid pre-electoral visit to Turkey call for free, fair, transparent elections
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have called for free, fair and transparent elections following their visit to Ankara to assess the...
Environmental volunteers detained before NATO summit questioned over alleged terrorist links
Forty-two volunteers from the TEMA Foundation, Turkey’s leading environmental group, were questioned over alleged links to a far-left organization after they were detained ahead...
Student briefly detained over remarks during İstanbul Bilgi University protests
A student at İstanbul Bilgi University was briefly detained on accusations of publicly spreading misleading information in remarks she made to the media during...
Turkey raises minimum wage by 27 percent, drawing sharp political backlash
Turkey has raised its monthly minimum wage by 27 percent for 2026, setting net pay at 28,075 lira ($655), Labor Minister Vedat Işıkhan announced...
8 press freedom groups call for release of Turkish journalist held in LGBT crackdown
Eight press freedom and rights organizations on Friday called on Turkish authorities to immediately release freelance journalist Tuğba Tekerek, who is being held in...
Turkish teacher imprisoned over Gülen links says emergency transfusion delayed despite critical blood levels
A Turkish teacher imprisoned over alleged links to the Gülen movement said doctors called for an emergency blood transfusion when she was finally taken...
Pro-gov’t media outlets least trusted in Turkey, according to global report
A report by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute has revealed that pro-government media outlets in Turkey, which are frequently criticized for acting as the propaganda...
Court bans more online content upon demand from controversial jurist
A Turkish court has imposed an access ban on 17 more news reports concerning bribery allegations made by a mobster against a member of...
Kurdish journalists detained in police raids in southeastern Turkey
Journalists Ertuş Bozkurt and Mikail Barut were detained on Sunday in police raids on their homes in southeastern Diyarbakir province, the Bianet news website...
ECtHR faults Turkey over lengthy pretrial detention of 8 people
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of eight people by holding them in pretrial detention for...
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