İstanbul district mayor among 18 detained in continuing crackdown on main opposition party
Turkish police detained Onursal Adıgüzel, mayor of İstanbul’s Ataşehir district, three deputy mayors and 14 others in an overnight operation as part of an...
Record number of doctors sought to leave Turkey in September, TTB data show
Statistics from the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) show that a record number of 321 physicians applied for a certificate of good standing in advance...
Top lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Turkish city calls for reckoning with Armenian genocide
The main lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province, which has faced prosecution over earlier April 24 statements, has called for Turkey to confront the...
8 years on, victims’ lawyers demand accountability for Ankara train station bombings
On the eighth anniversary of the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the Turkish Republic, lawyers for the victims’ families are still demanding...
ECtHR reverses earlier ruling, finds Turkey violated rights of man convicted over alleged Gülen...
The European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) Grand Chamber ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of a man convicted of membership in...
Israel withdraws its diplomats from Turkey due to security concerns: Turkish media
Israel has temporarily called back all its diplomats from Turkey over security concerns in the wake of widespread anti-Israeli protests and sentiment in the...
Turkey detains 76 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 76 people in two separate operations targeting people accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish media reported.
The...
Turkish court blocks access to reports on handover of Yazidi child to ISIL-linked family
A court in Turkey has ruled to block access to several news reports covering allegations that the Ministry of Family and Social Services had...
Turkey’s rights violation payouts in 4 months surpass all of 2025
Turkey paid 148.18 million lira ($3.25 million) in compensation for rights violations in the first four months of 2026, already exceeding the full-year total...
Turkey investigates Kurdish politician for promoting his book on social media
Prosecutors in the eastern Turkish province of Kars have launched an investigation into Kurdish politician Mahmut Alınak over a series of social media posts,...
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