Court releases defendants in case over alleged abuse of student interns at Turkish Parliament
A Turkish court has ordered the release from pretrial detention of all defendants in a case concerning the alleged abuse of student interns at...
11 women indicted for making vinegar in Ankara prison
Eleven female inmates who are all political prisoners in the capital city of Ankara have been indicted for making vinegar inside the prison in...
Turkey records 844 coronavirus-related deaths in last 5 months
Turkey has recorded 252,945 COVID-19 infections and 844 virus-related deaths in the last five months, the Evrensel daily reported, citing data from the Health...
Opposition MP voices outrage over imprisonment of 64-year-old woman on terrorism charges
Mustafa Yeneroğlu, a deputy from Turkey’s DEVA Party, urged authorities yesterday to immediately release 64-year-old Fatma Yurt, who was arrested on terrorism charges for...
Turkish courts handed down 80 years in prison to 36 journalists in 2021
Journalists in Turkey made 475 court appearances in 2021, with the courts handing down a total of 80 years in prison to 36 of...
Erdoğan files complaints against father investigating daughter’s suspicious death
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed criminal complaints against the father of Rabia Naz Vatan, an 11-year-old girl who died under suspicious circumstances...
Turkey’s media watchdog investigates 7 opposition TV stations for election coverage
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has launched an investigation into seven opposition TV stations for violating broadcasting guidelines during their...
Disaster resilient schools funded by World Bank, EU withstood quakes in Turkey
Disaster resilient schools built in southern Turkey with support from the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the...
PEN International calls on Turkey to drop terrorism charges against Kurdish writer
PEN International has called on Turkish authorities to drop all charges against a Kurdish writer who faces more than seven years in prison on...
Retired police officer shoots himself at pension protest in Ankara, dies in hospital
Retired police officer Ali Şekeroğlu shot himself Friday at a pension protest outside Turkey’s Constitutional Court in Ankara and died later in a hospital.
Şekeroğlu...
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