Defendant in ‘High School Girls Case’ was subjected to strip-search while in custody, court...
A university student said she was subjected to a strip-search while in custody, according to the court records for the first hearing of what...
Jailed Kurdish leaders mark 5 years behind bars on terrorism charges
Former co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ on Thursday passed the five-year mark behind bars, Turkish Minute...
Turkish police accused of beating 2 detainees
Two men detained in connection with a shooting incident in İstanbul say they were subjected to police abuse and coercion while in custody, the...
Senior bank manager fired for sharing meme making fun of economic downturn
Senior bank manager Hakan Dağlı was fired from his job for posting on his WhatsApp profile a "Money Heist"-themed meme about the Turkish Central...
ECtHR notified Turkey about combining cases of 30 soldiers, cadets arrested after failed coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) notified Turkey in November that it had combined applications concerning the arrest and pretrial detention of 30...
11-year-old autistic boy succumbs to heart disease without saying goodbye to his jailed father
Ömer Faruk Turan, 11, died of heart failure on Tuesday without being able to say goodbye to his father, who has been in prison...
Turkish authorities detain 200 people over alleged Gülen links in a week of operations
Turkish authorities have over the past week detained 200 individuals due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish media reported.
In the latest...
Scale of environmental disaster in Giresun continues to cause concern
Leakage from a flotation pool used for storing poisonous waste at a mining facility in Giresun continues to worry environmentalists, voicing their concerns on...
14 face terrorism charges for protesting journalists’ deaths in alleged Turkish drone strike
Fourteen people, including seven journalists, are facing terrorism-related charges for participating in a protest over the killing of two Kurdish journalists in an alleged Turkish drone...
Leader of right-wing party warns Turkish citizens of ‘Syrian threat’ in anti-migrant social media...
Ümit Özdağ, leader of the newly established far-right Victory Party (ZP), warned Turkish citizens of a "Syrian threat" in a video shared on Twitter...
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