Turkey marks Youth Day amid widespread youth unemployment
Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day was celebrated on Thursday in Turkey, where 2.3 million young people are unemployed, corresponding to 41 percent of Turks...
Protests against pro-gov’t company’s quarry in northern Turkey banned
The Governor’s Office of the Black Sea province of Rize has imposed a 15-day ban on demonstrations in one of its districts amid ongoing...
European rights court says Turkey violated rights of Kurdish politician
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey had violated multiple provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights in...
Armenians, Syrian refugees and Greeks top list of groups targeted by Turkish media in...
Armenians, Syrian refugees in Turkey and Greeks are at the top of the list of groups targeted with hate speech by the Turkish media...
Turkey no longer a safe haven for Uyghurs amid residency cancellations and deportation risks:...
Turkey is increasingly restricting the legal stay of Uyghurs and deporting some to third countries despite the risk of eventual return to China, in...
Kurdish ALS patient kept behind bars despite severe health decline, deemed ‘dangerous to society’
Abdulkadir Kuday, a Kurdish inmate with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) whose health has been deteriorating, remains imprisoned despite a Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK)...
Syriac newspaper in Turkey excluded from minority press aid due to rule limiting location...
A Syriac community newspaper in southeastern Turkey has been excluded from a state-administered aid program for minority publications under rules limiting the support to...
Vital needs grow in northwest Syria after last week’s earthquakes: MSF
Vital needs continue to grow in the northwest of Syria hit by last week’s devastating earthquakes, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said.
According...
Man gets restraining order against journalist he attacked in eastern Turkey
A municipal employee who in June attacked a local journalist in eastern Bitlis province has obtained a restraining order against the journalist, claiming to...
AKP lawmaker claims domestic violence cases in Turkey exaggerated by media
Hülya Atçı Nergis, a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has said the media is exaggerating femicides and other incidents of...
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