Police violence during protests over İstanbul mayor’s arrest ‘may amount to torture’: Amnesty
Amnesty International has urged Turkish authorities to investigate alleged human rights violations by police during mass protests in March, some of which “may amount...
Court releases 8 more cadets convicted on coup charges
An İstanbul court has released pending retrial eight more military cadets who had been convicted on coup charges and sentenced to life in prison...
136 women killed in Turkey by men in first half of 2025: rights group
A leading women’s rights organization in Turkey reported on Monday that 136 women were killed by men in the first six months of 2025, a figure...
6 detained in Turkish capital over ByLock use
Turkish police have detained six people in the Turkish capital of Ankara on charges of using the ByLock smartphone application, Turkish Minute reported on...
Erdoğan calls Gülen movement a ‘virus Turkey has not yet removed’
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday described the faith-based Gülen movement as a “virus” that Turkey has not yet removed, speaking at a memorial...
Syrian teenager stabbed to death in southern Turkey’s Hatay province
A young Syrian man was stabbed to death on Sunday in an apparent hate crime in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, the Duvar...
Authorities block prosecution of officer who killed 7-year-old with armored vehicle in SE Turkey
A district governor in southeastern Turkey has blocked the prosecution of a police officer who fatally struck 7-year-old Miraç Miroğlu with an armored vehicle,...
Backsliding in democracy continues in Turkey, European Commission says
The European Commission in its yearly report on Turkey released on Wednesday said democratic backsliding continued, underlining serious deficiencies in the functioning of the...
30 detained in Antalya and Istanbul as Turkey’s crackdown on main opposition-run cities deepens
Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 30 people in raids on the opposition-led municipalities of Antalya and Istanbul, part of a series of corruption investigations...
Dismissed police officer disabled in workplace accident suffers both physically and psychologically in prison,...
Former police officer Mustafa Aydın, an inmate who lost six fingers in an industrial accident after he was fired from his law enforcement job...
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