Social media campaign urges release of inmate with brain tumors
Social media users since Monday have been calling on Turkish authorities to release Özge Özbek, a former municipal social worker suffering from multiple brain...
Turkey’s media watchdog investigates Prime Video due to ‘indecent content’
Turkey’s media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has launched an investigation into an animated series streaming on Amazon Prime Video due...
Turkey detains 73 over Gülen links in defiance of ECtHR ruling
Turkish police have detained 73 people across 16 provinces in the last four days over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior...
Public officials not to be investigated over death of child in floods in northern...
The governor’s office in the northwestern Turkish province of Kastamonu has refused to allow an investigation into public officials over their alleged role in...
Businessman jailed over Gülen links dies due to excessive heat and overcrowding in Turkish...
Fahrettin İşgüder, a 73-year-old businessman who was sentenced to over six years in prison for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died on...
Turkish police detain 24 protesters at Suruç commemoration events
The police detained 24 protesters in Ankara and İstanbul on Sunday during marches commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Suruç massacre of 2015, in...
Teacher dismissed and convicted over Gülen links dies of brain hemorrhage
Hatice Kahraman, a 40-year-old former teacher who was dismissed from her job by a government decree as part of purges that followed a 2016...
Turkey detains 113 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 113 people due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, according to...
UN torture committee questions Turkey’s permanent state of emergency laws, treatment of detainees and...
The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) has concluded its consideration of Turkey's fifth periodic report, highlighting significant concerns regarding the country's adherence to...
People moving overseas from Turkey increased by 53 percent in 2023: TurkStat
More than 700,000 Turks and foreign nationals left Turkey last year, an increase of 53 percent compared to 2022, Turkish Minute reported on Friday,...
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