Şenyaşar family calls on people to break Ramadan fast with them in front of...
Members of the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding justice for three of their relatives murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from the...
IHD report reveals high number of human rights violations and discrimination against minors
A large number of minors in Turkey have been the subject of human rights violations and discrimination in the last year, according to a...
Turkey’s opposition bloc nominates CHP chairman as its joint presidential candidate
A bloc of six Turkish opposition parties has nominated Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, 74, leader of the country’s main opposition party, as its joint presidential candidate...
Lawyer rearrested days after release from prison in Turkey
Metin Can Yılmaz, a Turkish human rights lawyer who was sentenced to over 12 years in prison on alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
888 child workers have died in occupational accidents in Turkey during AKP rule: İSİG
A total of 888 child workers have died in work-related accidents since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002,...
ECtHR faults Turkey over lengthy pretrial detention of former US Consulate employee
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Metin Topuz, a former US Consulate employee, by keeping...
İstanbul district mayor, 25 others arrested in expanding crackdown targeting CHP
Hasan Mutlu, mayor of the Bayrampaşa district of İstanbul from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was arrested late Monday along with 25 others in...
Turkish court files complaint against lawyer of academic who died in prison, due to...
Judges of the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court have filed a complaint with a prosecutor against Mustafa Bal, the lawyer representing academic Tuğrul Özşengül,...
800 Syrians in Turkey return home weekly to undesirable conditions, says UNCHR Turkey representative
Philippe Leclerc, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) representative in Turkey, said approximately 800 Syrians leave Turkey for Syria every week but...
Social media users call on Turkish authorities to release jailed mother of child suffering...
Thousands of social media users in Turkey have called on authorities to release Gülten Sayın, the mother of Yusuf Kerim Sayın (6), who is...
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