Jailed Kurdish politician criticizes peace efforts for ignoring reconciliation between Kurds and Turks
Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-chair of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish political party, has accused the government of neglecting social reconciliation in its ongoing peace...
Turkish President Erdoğan postpones miners’ strike, citing national security concerns
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has halted a planned miners' strike in four provinces for 60 days, citing national security concerns, Turkish media reported.
The decision,...
Religious communities in Turkey face systematic rights violations, US report says
Religious communities in Turkey face systematic and severe violations of their religious freedom, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its...
2,417 doctors have left Turkey to work in Germany in 2022, according to TTB
The number of Turkish doctors immigrating from Turkey to Germany due to heavy workloads and increasing security concerns has reached 2,417, according to the...
15 arrested in bribery, organized crime probe targeting former CHP mayor in Bursa
Fifteen people, including a former district mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), have been arrested in a bribery and organized crime...
Royalty payments to imprisoned editor, translator investigated as ‘terrorism financing’ in Turkey
A Turkish court has placed a publishing house representative under house arrest as part of an investigation into royalty payments made to an imprisoned...
Chamber of Mining Engineers chair says Turkish government’s policies to blame for mining disasters
Ayhan Yüksel, chairman of the Chamber of Mining Engineers, has criticized the Turkish government’s policies and said they were the number one reason for...
Turkey’s response to UN letter on Kavala case does not address allegations: UN special...
Turkey’s response to a joint letter sent by UN special rapporteurs in September on the case of Osman Kavala, a prominent businessman and philanthropist...
HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question regarding underage inmates confined with adults in Maltepe Prison
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit in a parliamentary question addressing the Turkish Ministry of Justice asked if it was true that...
Man imprisoned on Gülen links dies a day before scheduled release
Ramazan Açıkgöz, who was convicted of alleged links to the Gülen movement, died of a heart attack Tuesday evening, one day before he was...
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