54.3 percent of people in Turkey believe they are discriminated against due to their...
A total of 54.3 percent of people in Turkey believe they are discriminated against because of their political views, Euronews reported on Sunday, citing...
Turkey to sell Boydak family’s textile giant Boyteks seized after 2016 coup attempt
Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put Boyteks Tekstil, one of the country’s largest textile manufacturers, previously owned by the Boydak family,...
Journalist indicted for insulting Erdoğan in reports, social media posts
Turkish prosecutors have indicted journalist Mehmet Murat Yıldırım on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his reporting and social media posts, the...
Justice remains elusive on 8th anniversary of Turkey’s worst mining disaster
Eight years have passed since Turkey’s worst mining disaster took the lives of hundreds, with people who lost relatives in the accident complaining about...
Twitter’s lawyer in Turkey tweets hate speech against Gülen movement
Lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, who represents Twitter in Turkey, used hate speech against supporters of the Gülen movement in a series of tweets on Saturday,...
Former cadets call on top court to reverse decision upholding their life sentences
After Turkey’s top appeals court in late July upheld life sentences handed down to 60 former military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath...
Turkey building enormous wall on Iranian border to fend off illegal migrants
Turkey has been making progress in its plan to build a wall on its Iranian border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings, migrant...
Journalist who photographed murder of Kurdish student released from pretrial detention
A Kurdish journalist who has been the subject of frequent judicial harassment since he photographed the killing of a Kurdish university student by a...
Man kept in solitary confinement over Gülen links suffers from facial paralysis
Akif Sarı, 46, who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement and has been kept in solitary confinement since January 2020, is...
NGO compiles ECtHR judgments against Turkey in new report
Justice Square, a human rights group based in the Netherlands, has released a new report bringing together European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments...
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