Police fire rubber bullets, tear gas during protest near İstanbul City Hall
Turkish riot police on Thursday fired rubber bullets and tear gas as demonstrators protested near İstanbul City Hall over the detention of Mayor Ekrem...
Armored vehicles, abandoned explosives have killed 67 children in Turkey since 2011: report
A total of 67 children in Turkey have been killed by armored vehicles, landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) since 2011, according to...
Detention warrants issued for 138 over alleged Gülen links, 114 detained in two days
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 138 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, with 114 of them taken into custody,...
Death of Gülen-linked philanthropist sheds light on political prisoner treatment in Turkey
Mustafa Said Türk, a severely disabled Turkish man who was briefly jailed in 2023 over alleged ties to the faith based Gülen movement, died...
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Turkish court convicts Kurdish journalist of disseminating terrorist propaganda
A Turkish court on Monday convicted Kurdish journalist Hayri Demir of disseminating terrorist propaganda through his reporting, the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA)...
Thousands of migrants illegally deported from Turkey, says Syrian Associations Platform chairman
Mehdi Davud, chairman of the Syrian Associations Platform (Suriyeli Dernekler Platformu), in an interview said thousands of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq had...
Underage boys at Turkish gov’t-run religious boarding school accuse teacher of sexual abuse
A group of underage boys at a religious boarding school run by the Directorate of Religious Affairs have accused their teacher of sexual abuse, raising alarm...
Turkey’s top court follows ECtHR ruling, finds uploading correspondence to judicial network server violates...
A week after a decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Turkey’s top court has ruled that uploading correspondence onto the...
Turkish authorities detain 208 people in a day over alleged Gülen links: minister
Turkish authorities detained 208 people on Tuesday for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced.
Yerlikaya said on X that...
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