Recent study reveals many children in Turkey suffer from malnutrition 

A recent study presented at the Turkish Pediatrics Congress last week revealed that one in every five children under the age of five in Turkey suffers from malnutrition, the Diken news website reported.  According...

Turkey sentences Erdoğan critic Kavala to life in jail

A Turkish court Monday sentenced leading intellectual and rights campaigner Osman Kavala to life in jail on highly controversial coup plot charges that had...

Report reveals alarming shortage of women’s shelters across Turkey

A recent report by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi has revealed a critical shortage in the number and capacity of women’s...

82-year-old inmate left to die in Turkish prison, daughter claims

Sıddık Güler, 82, who suffers from high blood pressure and rheumatism and is unable to walk, has been left to die in Turkish prison,...

UN special rapporteurs condemn charges against İstanbul bar over call for journalist death probe

United Nations human rights special rapporteurs on Friday sharply criticized the criminal charges against the president and 10  board members of the İstanbul Bar...

Erdoğan seeks extradition of Turkish political dissidents in Sweden in exchange for its NATO...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has presented a list of 21 people who fled Turkey for political reasons and are currently living in exile...

CoE monitoring body warns hate speech, crimes worsening in Turkey

A human rights monitoring body of the Council of Europe (CoE) detailed the deteriorating situation regarding hate speech and hate-motivated violence in Turkey in...

Gendarmes spark outrage for terrorizing Kurdish civilians during detention in eastern Turkey

A group of gendarmes has sparked outrage for terrorizing civilians in Van, a Kurdish-majority city in eastern Turkey, by firing random shots into the...

Turkish authorities block urgent brain surgery for prisoner over handcuff requirement

An inmate at Erzurum Dumlu Prison was denied urgent surgery for a life-threatening brain aneurysm after authorities insisted the procedure be performed with the...

44 rights groups, advocates call for stop to pushbacks in joint letter to EU

Forty-four human rights organizations and advocates have signed a joint letter addressing European Union officials, asking them to extend their support to stop pushbacks...

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