Director Fatih Akın says Turkey is run by ‘mobsters,’ fears arrest over jailed manager
Acclaimed film director Fatih Akın said he fears ending up behind bars if he returns to Turkey, with his manager in jail there accused...
Over 2,000 workers died in occupational accidents in Turkey in 2025: İSİG
Turkey recorded at least 2,105 deaths in work-related accidents in 2025, according to a recent report by the Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG).
The figure marks...
New ‘research center’ a dead end for purged diplomats reinstated by the courts
Career diplomats who were purged from the Foreign Ministry by the Turkish government and subsequently reinstated by the courts will be employed in a...
European legal body condemns Turkey’s crackdown on İstanbul Bar Association
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) on Thursday condemned judicial proceedings against the İstanbul Bar Association, its president İbrahim Kaboğlu...
Turkish court rejects lifting travel ban on jailed Mayor İmamoğlu’s son to attend scientific...
A Turkish court has rejected a request to temporarily lift an international travel ban on the son of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, preventing...
Greece arrests 2 people from sailboat in distress with 70 aboard: report
Two people were arrested on suspicion of migrant smuggling and endangering lives for steering a sailboat carrying 68 others that ran into trouble off...
Over half a million Syrians have returned home from Turkey: Ankara
Some 550,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey have returned home following the fall of Bashar al-Assad last December, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on...
Turkey orders arrest of 35 people over alleged Gülen movement links
A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of 35 of 72 people detained on November 17 as part of the government’s ongoing crackdown on...
Turkish prison launches disciplinary investigation into inmates for refusing to eat
A prison administration in Ankara province has launched a disciplinary investigation into 39 female inmates for refusing to eat meals for three days to...
Negligence alleged in death of young Syrian found injured outside Turkish hospital
A young Syrian man died of a brain hemorrhage on Sunday after relatives found him seriously injured outside an İstanbul hospital where they say...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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