Turks file 14,000 asylum applications in Germany in first 5 months of 2024
Turkish nationals have lodged a total of 13,741 first-time asylum applications and 710 repeat applications in Germany, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Friday,...
Prison parole boards discriminate against political prisoners, says HDP deputy
Prison parole boards discriminate against political prisoners, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Züleyha Gülüm claimed in a parliamentary question to Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül.
According...
28 women killed by men, 19 others die under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Twenty-eight women were killed by men in Turkey in September, while 19 others died under suspicious circumstances, according to a monthly report by the...
HRW, other rights groups urge Turkey to end internet censorship amid mass account blocks
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 20 other human rights and media freedom organizations on Monday called on Turkish authorities to end what they described...
Economic hardship forces one in four retirees in Turkey to remain in the workforce
Nearly one in four retirees in Turkey remains in the workforce due to economic difficulties, with their number more than doubling since 2017, the...
Punitive actions by Turkey against anti-gov’t media at record high: report
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has imposed a record number of punitive measures against anti-government TV and radio stations in the two...
Turkey’s justice ministry refuses to assert authority for Kavala’s retrial
The Turkish Justice Ministry has rejected a petition from the lawyers of jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala asking the ministry to assert its...
Pro-gov’t media group accused of failing to repay $750 mln to state-owned bank
A main opposition lawmaker has reiterated on social media his written question to Turkish state lender Ziraat Bank in 2020 concerning a $750 million...
Worker held captive and brutally mistreated by employers desperately seeks justice
Vedat Kurt, a 22-year-old man who was allegedly taken prisoner and tortured by his employers after complaining about his unpaid wages, has called on...
Turkey’s top court says jailed former lawmaker’s rights were violated
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker and...
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