Press union insists justice minister explain continued detention of journalist
DİSK Basın-İş, a labor union representing media workers in Turkey, has demanded an explanation from Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç for the continued pretrial detention...
Far-right leader to start hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment
Ümit Özdağ, leader of Turkey’s far-right Victory Party, plans to begin a hunger strike after Eid al-Fitr, the three-day Muslim festival marking the end...
Turkey orders detention of 37 more people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities ordered the detention of 37 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in two separate investigations last week, Turkish media...
Purge victim dies after heart attack in Turkish prison
Bayram Tekin, a former police officer who was fired by a government decree as part of purges that followed a 2016 coup attempt in...
Sexual abuse in detention on the rise in Turkey: rights groups
Women and transwomen in Turkey are often mistreated during police raids and in detention, especially by the country’s security forces, according a statement issued...
22 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in June
Twenty-two women were murdered by men in Turkey last month, while 27 died under suspicious circumstances, according to data from the We Will Stop Femicide Platform...
Kurdish politician allegedly strip-searched in western Turkey prison
The guards in an İzmir prison allegedly strip-searched and verbally assaulted Berna Çelik, a provincial executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who...
Press freedom groups demand release of 3 journalists in Turkey
Ten press freedom organizations on Thursday called for the immediate and unconditional release of three journalists arrested in Turkey earlier this month as part...
Opposition MP submits parliamentary proposal to investigate the impact of poverty on minors in...
Ayşe Sibel Yankıömeroğlu from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) has submitted a parliamentary proposal to investigate the impact of poverty on minors in Turkey...
Turkish students spark criticism for giving Nazi salute to Jewish high school students
Students from an İstanbul high school have attracted criticism for giving a Hitler salute to students from a Jewish high school during a football...
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