RSF calls on Turkey to reinstate Açık Radyo’s broadcasting license
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Turkish judicial authorities to overturn a decision by country’s broadcasting and streaming regulator to rescind independent radio station Açık...
IPU urges Turkey to end continued arbitrary detention of former opposition MP
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organization of national parliaments, has said in a recent decision regarding the case of...
Syrian refugee’s health in peril due to bureaucratic barriers in Turkey
A Syrian refugee in Turkey was temporarily denied critical HIV treatment due to bureaucratic hurdles, sparking concerns about human rights violations and public health...
Grand Unity Party’s women’s committee member detained after criticizing gov’t policies
Fatma Yümlü, a member of the right-wing Grand Unity Party's (BBP) women's committee, was detained on Friday in Ordu province after criticizing government policies,...
Top court finds public benefit in report on terror-linked ‘gov’t’ award to state-run TRT
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found “public benefit” in a 2019 report by the sendika.org news website concerning an award Turkey’s public broadcaster had received...
Turkey building enormous wall on Iranian border to fend off illegal migrants
Turkey has been making progress in its plan to build a wall on its Iranian border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings, migrant...
Turkish police continue to detain people for singing Kurdish songs
Turkish police have detained five people for singing Kurdish-language songs at a wedding in the central province of Osmaniye, the Yeni Yaşam news website reported on...
Top court rules lengthy interim injunction violated citizen’s right to property
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a citizen’s right to own or inherit property was violated due to a lengthy interim injunction on his...
Arresting Kurds over songs played at weddings is abuse of power: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Turkey for arresting dozens of Kurds at wedding parties for singing or dancing to political folk songs, calling it...
Pro-Kurdish party member abducted, tortured by men posing as police: report
Celalettin Yalçın, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was abducted and subjected to torture by individuals who introduced themselves as “the...
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