40 women killed by men, 20 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Forty women were murdered by men in Turkey in May, and 20 more died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Pregnant woman subjected to sexual harassment and insults by prosecutor during interrogation
Nigar Kocabaş, a pregnant woman who in 2016 was interrogated by Chief Public Prosecutor İbrahim Keskin in the northern Turkish city of Samsun for...
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...
Amnesty calls for release of dozens detained at İstanbul Pride March
The Turkey office of Amnesty International has called on Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release dozens of LGBTQ+ activists who were detained in...
Family seeks investigation after man dies in Turkish custody with unexplained injuries
The family and lawyers of a man who died in an Istanbul hospital 12 days after a court jailed him pending trial are seeking...
Turkey blocks social media accounts of Kurdish news outlets, journalist
Turkish authorities on Saturday blocked the social media accounts of several Kurdish news outlets and a Kurdish journalist in the latest restrictions targeting Kurdish...
Luxembourg condemns dismissal of opposition mayors in Turkey, citing threat to democracy
Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies has adopted a resolution condemning the dismissal of opposition mayors in Turkey, describing the actions as a serious threat to...
Top court upholds sentence given to jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence of four years, eight months given to Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been...
Erdoğan denies rights reports, says not many journalists in prison
There are not as many journalists in Turkish jails as has been claimed by human rights advocates, and those journalists who are in prison...
Turkish authorities detain 23 people over alleged Gülen links in a week of operations
Turkish authorities have over the past week detained 23 people due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish media reported.
In the latest...
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