Turkish Airlines offers discounts to members of pro-Erdoğan lobbying group in Europe
Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, is offering discounts on ticket sales to members of the Union of International Democrats (UID), the ruling Justice...
Germany, France demand immediate release of activist Kavala ahead of Gezi retrial
Representatives of the German and French governments have called on Turkey to immediately release prominent businessman and human rights activist Osman Kavala, who has...
Prisoner denied release for 6 years despite European rights court ruling
Fermani Çetin, an inmate serving a life sentence in northwest Turkey, has seen his parole postponed by six years based on disciplinary penalties that...
Turkey’s rights foundation details widespread violations against activists in 2020
Infographics released on the website of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) have revealed widespread rights violations suffered by human rights activists in...
Former AKP mayor of Kurdish city arrested on bribery charges
A former mayor from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who replaced a democratically elected district mayor in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast in...
Top court upholds prison sentences in MİT trucks probe
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the lengthy jail sentences handed down to 18 defendants for conducting a 2014 investigation into trucks operated...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court disregards landmark ECtHR judgment in Gülen movement trials: legal expert
A judgment recently delivered by Turkey’s Constitutional Court has demonstrated that the top court is turning a blind eye to a landmark European Court...
Int’l associations condemn police attack on journalists during Suruç protests
The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday condemned Turkish police violence in İstanbul and İzmir against journalists...
205 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in the first half of this...
A total of 205 women were murdered by men in Turkey in the first six months of this year, while 117 died under suspicious...
Some 400,000 Syrian children left out of Turkish education system
Turkey was unable to provide education for 397,253 Syrian children who were under temporary protection status during the 2019-2020 academic year, Turkish Minute reported,...
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