Another court testimony confirms abuse of women in Turkish detention center
Lt. Musa Kılıçaslan, a decorated military officer in the special operations unit of the Turkish Gendarmerie who was detained after a coup attempt in...
Opposition party calls for investigation into death of Kurdish teenager in police target practice...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has called for an investigation into the death of Muharrem Aksem in a police target practice area in...
UN agencies need $400 mln for 4.9 million people in Syria affected by the...
UN humanitarian agencies will need $397.6 million in funding over the next three months to respond to the most pressing humanitarian needs of 4.9...
Syrian refugees flock to border to flee Turkey earthquake wreckage
Syrian refugees living in Turkey sought to get back to their war-torn country on Friday after swaths of their adopted home were destroyed by...
25 journalists jailed in Turkey in first quarter of 2025: report
The Turkish government intensified its crackdown on the media in the first quarter of 2025, jailing 25 journalists and launching dozens of prosecutions, Turkish...
Turkey has requested removal of massive amount of online content from Google in 10...
Turkish government agencies have requested the removal of a total of 90,400 web pages and other content from Google in the last decade, Turkish...
Vital needs grow in northwest Syria after last week’s earthquakes: MSF
Vital needs continue to grow in the northwest of Syria hit by last week’s devastating earthquakes, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said.
According...
Investigations into exercise of freedom of speech soar during Erdoğan’s presidency
Investigations have been launched into 211,523 people in Turkey on various accusations involving freedom of expression during the first six years of Recep Tayyip...
German Foreign Ministry issues travel alert on Turkey, warns of prosecution for social media...
The German Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory on Wednesday, warning its citizens about the risks of traveling to Turkey, including the possibility of...
31,131 workers have died in occupational accidents during AKP rule: İSİG
Turkey has recorded 31,131 deaths in work-related accidents since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002, according to a report by...
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