14 former officers detained over alleged Gülen links in ‘payphone investigation’

Turkish police detained 14 former military officers in raids carried out in Ankara for alleged links to the Gülen movement, the TR724 news website...

Roma community in Turkey hard hit by economic and social ramifications of COVID-19

The Roma community in Turkey, considered to be one of the country’s most socially marginalized and economically underprivileged communities, has been directly affected by...

163 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in April

A total of 163 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in April, according to a monthly report by the Health and Safety Labor...

More than 100 students detained at Boğaziçi University amid protests against crackdown on LGBT...

The arrest of two Boğaziçi University students over a poster that depicted LGBT rainbow symbols alongside an image of the Kaaba in Mecca has...

Jailed Kurdish journalists indicted on terrorism charges due to their news reports

Three Kurdish journalists who had been detained as part of an İstanbul-based investigation and were arrested by a court last month have been indicted on terrorism...
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Journalist given suspended sentence for mocking Erdoğan’s donation campaign

A veteran Turkish journalist has been handed down a suspended sentence of seven months, 15 days for provoking public hatred and enmity with a...

Activists call for release of ailing 76-year-old inmate

Social media users on Thursday called on Turkish authorities to release Ahmet Öztürk, an ailing prisoner who is suffering from deteriorating health. https://twitter.com/odakdunyam/status/1796244690423136726 A retired banker,...

Turkey’s top court annuls state of emergency decree that closed down media outlets

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has canceled an article of a government decree issued in the aftermath of a failed coup in July 2016 that led...

Opposition MP raises alarm over alleged mistreatment of women detainees

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a parliamentary member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and a human rights advocate, has raised concerns...

630 days into his disappearance Yusuf Bilge Tunç’s father says no one hears their...

The father of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who went missing 630 days ago and is feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence, said he...

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