Journalist sentenced on terrorism charges for membership in women’s organization
A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of three years, seven months and 22 days to journalist Nurcan Yalçın on terrorism charges...
Direct Relief delivers 80 tons of medical support to Turkey via FedEx
Direct Relief and FedEx have announced the safe arrival of a humanitarian relief flight in Turkey carrying 80 tons of supplies in response to...
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...
Main opposition leader visits Şenyaşar family members, who have been demanding justice in political...
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on Thursday visited members of the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding...
Turkey’s Education Ministry authorizes Grey Wolves to offer courses at education centers
Turkey’s Ministry of Education has signed a protocol with the Grey Wolves, the youth wing of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), granting the...
Amnesty says justice prevails as Turkey’s top court overturns convictions of 4 rights defenders
“The decision by Türkiye’s highest appeals court to overturn baseless convictions of Amnesty International Türkiye’s Honorary Chair and three other human rights defenders is...
Turkish gov’t not serious about UN’s periodic human rights review process: Human Rights Watch
The Turkish government’s refusal to acknowledge and address key issues at the core of the human rights crisis the country is currently facing shows...
Turkey’s top court finds human rights violations in over 79,500 cases since 2012
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that at least one fundamental right was violated in more than 79,500 cases over the past 13 years, raising...
Turkey detains 16 over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 11 students and five homemakers in recent raids in Bursa and İstanbul over suspected links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Turkey’s broadcast regulator to act against YouTube street interviews “driving pessimism”
Ebubekir Şahin, chairman of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), said on Saturday that Turkey’s broadcast regulator will move against YouTube “street interview”...
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