Turkish authorities take legal action against IHD and association chair Öztürk Türkdoğan

Turkish authorities have taken legal action against the Human Rights Association (IHD), an NGO monitoring human rights violations in Turkey since 1986, and its...

Press groups condemn detention of 4 journalists in Turkey, call for their release

Press freedom and human rights organizations have condemned the detention of four journalists in Turkey, calling it a crackdown on independent media and demanding...

27 int’l rights, press groups call for release of jailed TV journalist Sedef Kabaş

Twenty-nine international human rights and journalists organizations have in a joint statement called for the release of prominent TV journalist Sedef Kabaş from pre-trial detention...

Syrian Kurdish-led forces say Turkish airstrikes killed 12

Kurdish-led forces that control large swaths of northern and northeastern Syria said 12 people were killed Wednesday in airstrikes it blamed on Turkey, Agence...

3 political parties file complaints against journalist for allegedly insulting Turkey

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), its far-right ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the small, nationalist Grand Unity Party (BBP) have...

Turkish academic gets suspended sentence for insulting president

Turkish academic and journalist Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör has been given a suspended sentence of more than one year on conviction of “insulting the president”...

Turkish Interior Ministry introduces new plan to set ‘migrant quota’ in cities

Turkish Deputy Interior Minister Ismail Çataklı on Wednesday said a quota for migrants had been introduced in 16 cities to make sure non-Turkish residents...

Inmates in central Turkey develop skin lesions from contaminated water

Inmates at Kırşehir Prison in central Turkey have reportedly developed skin lesions due to contaminated water. Journalist Sevinç Özaslan revealed on social media that inmates...

HDP deputy says students detained for Gülen links mistreated at Istanbul police headquarters

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Saturday said on Twitter that 41 students who were detained at...

Turkish journalists receive suspended sentences over 2019 protest coverage

Three Turkish journalists were handed down suspended five-month sentences on Wednesday for covering a 2019 demonstration in İstanbul in protest of the government’s removal...
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