Poverty stemming from pandemic continues to worsen among Turkey’s Roma people
A report drafted by the Roma Memory Studies Association (Romani Godi) reveals how the poverty that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic deepened the rights violations against...
Critically ill Kurdish prisoner dies after repeated pleas for sentence suspension
Mehmet Edip Taşar, a critically ill, 70-year-old Kurdish prisoner, died in a hospital on Tuesday after authorities repeatedly denied his release despite his worsening...
UK announces deal with Turkey to tackle illegal migration
The UK has announced a deal with Turkey to enhance cooperation on tackling illegal migration, which includes a new operational “center of excellence” to be...
Prosecutors open new investigation into jailed İstanbul mayor over courtroom remarks
Prosecutors on Monday opened a new investigation into jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the main opposition’s presidential candidate, over remarks he made during a...
Turkey blocks access to VOA Turkish news website
A Turkish court imposed an access ban on the Voice of America (VOA) Turkish edition website after the media outlet refused to comply with...
Turkey investigates women’s rights association over statements on suspicious deaths of abuse complainant and...
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into a women’s rights association on accusations of disseminating misleading information over its statements on the suspicious death...
Turkey sentences founding member of Kurdish women’s association to more than 7 years in...
A Diyarbakır court has sentenced Narin Gezgör, a founding member of the Rosa Women’s Association, a Kurdish women’s rights group, to seven years, six...
Turkey holds 5 students for nearly a year in pretrial detention over alleged Gülen...
Five university students in southern Turkey have been held in pretrial detention for more than 11 months without an indictment over alleged links to...
Police detain 24 in southern Turkey for attending commemoration ceremony for leftist figures
Turkish police on Thursday detained 24 people for attending a commemoration ceremony in May for three left-wing, revolutionary students who were executed in 1972,...
Nearly half of students in Turkey’s MESEM program report accidents, overwork
Forty-eight percent of students enrolled in Turkey’s Vocational Education Centers (MESEM) have experienced at least one workplace accident, while 53 percent work more than...
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