Turkey’s top court rejects appeal in 2015 Ankara bombing case
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal filed on behalf of victims of the 2015 Ankara train station bombing, ruling the application inadmissible in...
Kurds accuse Turkey of destroying oil, power facilities in NE Syria
Turkish bombardment has damaged more than half of Kurdish-held northeast Syria’s power and oil infrastructure, dealing a blow to its energy-dependent economy, Turkish Minute...
26 women killed by men, 23 died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in April
Twenty-six women were murdered by men in Turkey in April, while another 23 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform said...
23 people briefly detained over Kurdish songs played at wedding in central Turkey
Twenty-three people were briefly detained on Saturday due to the Kurdish songs played at a wedding that took place in central Turkey about a...
Turkish journalist indicted over reporting on Erdoğan family, alleged irregularities
Turkish prosecutors have indicted journalist İsmail Arı for his online commentary and social media posts involving family members of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as...
Writer to serve sentence for showing solidarity with Kurdish daily
A Kurdish writer has been sent to prison to serve a 15-month sentence on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda when acting as the symbolic...
Turkish opposition lawmaker seeks probe into police officer’s suicide amid mobbing allegations
An opposition lawmaker has asked Turkey’s interior minister to investigate allegations that workplace harassment, or mobbing, drove a police officer in İstanbul to die...
Kurdish language teacher suffers threats and insults on social media
Mizgin Yalçın, a teacher of the Kurdish language based in Diyarbakır, received numerous insulting and threatening messages on social media after she shared a...
Turkey arrested 29 journalists in 2025 amid surge in pretrial detention: report
Turkey experienced a growing press freedom crisis in 2025, with 29 journalists arrested and the pretrial detention of media workers rising more than fivefold...
Turkey’s top appeals court rejects pro-Kurdish party’s name change request
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has refused to a give a green light to the name change request of a pro-Kurdish party on the...
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