Turkish YouTubers freed after conviction for joke about the Prophet Muhammad
An İstanbul court on Friday sentenced a YouTube host and his guest to seven months in prison but ordered their release due to time...
Turkey’s economic crisis leaves youths jobless and disillusioned
More than half of Turkey’s young people are not working, a new study shows, revealing widespread hopelessness and low life satisfaction among a generation...
New investigation targets jailed İstanbul mayor, TV executive on allegations of espionage
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his campaign director, both of whom are in pretrial detention as part of another investigation, have also been implicated...
822 children under the age of 6 live in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons: report
A recent report by the Civil Society in the Penal System (CISST) has revealed a growing number of children living behind bars with their...
Turkish man aiding Syrian refugees through Ankara charity shop arrested on sexual assault charges
A Turkish man known for helping refugees through a charity shop in Ankara has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting several Syrian women...
Turkey among countries enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza: UN report
A United Nations report has accused Turkey, along with several Western and regional powers, of enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza through continued trade, military...
Turkey to grant financial crimes unit the power to freeze bank accounts instantly
The Turkish Parliament is preparing to give the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) the power to immediately freeze bank accounts linked to suspicious transactions,...
Veteran Kurdish politician acquitted of terrorism charges that led to his removal as mayor
Prominent Kurdish politician Ahmet Türk, a former co-mayor of Mardin in southeastern Turkey from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), has been...
Kurdish politician Demirtaş voices full support for peace process despite continued incarceration
Prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has expressed full support for an ongoing peace process aimed at resolving the decades-long armed conflict between the outlawed...
Turkey among countries practicing religious discrimination in global freedom report
Turkey is among dozens of countries accused of systematic religious discrimination in a new global report warning that nearly two-thirds of humanity lives under...
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