Lawyer alleges police violence at İstanbul station after client meeting
Lawyer Yunus Özayar filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday alleging that police officers physically assaulted him at a police station in İstanbul after he...
Number of arrests over May Day demonstrations rises to 49
With 11 more arrests ordered by an İstanbul court on Monday, the number of people arrested for allegedly resisting law enforcement on May Day...
Turkey’s top court upholds prison sentence for ousted Kurdish mayor in retrial
Turkey’s top appeals court has upheld a prison sentence of more than nine years handed down to a Kurdish mayor who was removed from...
Turkish women’s rights activists call on authorities to thoroughly investigate female suicide cases and...
Two Turkish women's rights activists said in an interview that during the COVID-19 pandemic there had been an increase in female suicides and accidental...
Gunman attacks pro-Kurdish party office in Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris
A lone gunman early Wednesday morning staged an attack on the district office of a pro-Kurdish party in Turkey’s holiday resort of Marmaris, Turkish...
2 Moroccans mistakenly deported from Turkey to northern Syria: report
Two Moroccan nationals were mistakenly deported to war-torn Syria by Turkish authorities earlier this year after they attempted to illegally enter Europe through Turkey’s...
4-year-old girl accompanying her mother in Turkish prison hospitalized due to infection
Four-year-old Safiye Şahnaz, who is accompanying her mother in Antalya L-type Prison in southern Turkey, was hospitalized on Tuesday after developing a serious infection,...
Turkey bans Robbie Williams concert over safety concerns
Turkish authorities have banned a Robbie Williams concert scheduled for October 7 in İstanbul over “safety concerns” following several calls for protest, a source...
Turkey adds exiled journalist Dündar to ‘Terrorist Wanted List’
Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist living in exile, has been added to the Turkish Interior Ministry’s “Terrorist Wanted List,” Turkish Minute reported on Friday.
Dündar...
Pro-Kurdish party declines to present oral defense to top court in act of protest
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the subject of a closure case, has decided not to present an oral defense at the Constitutional Court...
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