Femicide in Turkey: At least 275 women killed in first 10 months of 2022

At least 275 women in Turkey were killed by men between January and October despite the government’s claim that the number of femicides in...

Turkey can’t be allowed to hold NATO membership hostage any longer, says Swedish journalists...

The president of the Swedish Journalists' Association (Journalistförbundet) has called on the authorities in Sweden to take measures to protect Turkish journalists in exile...

Turkey detains 22 more people in operation targeting Gülen followers

Turkish police on Wednesday detained 22 more people out of 23 named in detention warrants as part an ongoing operation into the financial activities...

Pro-Erdoğan daily targets yet another Turkish journalist living in exile

A Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden who’s on a list of political dissidents whose extradition is demanded by Turkey has been targeted...

Turkey detains 22 people in another operation targeting Gülen followers

Turkish police have detained 22 people out of 25 named in detention warrants as part of an Ankara-based probe into academics and civil servants...

‘I am being held in prison on the basis of a fiction,’ says jailed...

Osman Kavala, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who has been jailed since October 18, 2017, said in a written interview he gave through his...

Erdoğan’s government continues its crackdown on critics and opponents: HRW

The arrest last week in Turkey of Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı is the latest in a pattern of politically motivated cases as the government...

7 women fell victim to femicide in Turkey last week

A total of seven women were victims of femicide in various Turkish cities last week, according to data from the Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu...

Man faces investigation for attending funerals of Gülen followers

A Turkish prosecutor in western Turkey has launched an investigation into a man who attended the funerals of two men who had been accused...

Pro-Erdoğan daily targets ex-police chief on Turkey’s extradition list from Sweden

A former Turkish police chief living in exile in Sweden named on a list of political dissidents whose extradition is demanded by the Turkish...

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