Thousands of children lost parents in Turkey’s earthquake disaster
A total of 3,500 children lost either one or both parents in earthquakes that devastated several southeastern Turkish provinces in early February, the Hürriyet...
Rights groups tell top European court Kavala case reflects political capture of Turkey’s judiciary
Three rights groups told the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ahead of a Wednesday hearing that imprisoned Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala’s case shows how the...
Journalist investigated for reporting on child sexual abuse in health minister’s hospital
A journalist from the anti-government Halk TV station has announced that she is being investigated for reporting on the alleged sexual abuse of a...
Study says families link some post-coup suicides in Turkey to government pressure
A new study based on interviews with families in Turkey suggests that some suicides following a post-coup purge after a 2016 failed coup are...
Turkey’s chief of general staff set up a secret hit team for extrajudicial murders,...
Metin Gürak, recently appointed Turkey’s chief of general staff, has been accused of clandestinely forming an assassination squad to carry out attacks and murders...
Turkey’s unjust prosecutions make journalism nearly impossible, press groups say
Unjust prosecutions and detentions have made independent journalism nearly impossible in Turkey, representatives of seven press organizations said on Monday, as they called for...
Teenager arrested for spray-painting Atatürk monument in Turkey
A Turkish court arrested a 16-year-old who spray-painted a monument of Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in the western city of İzmir on the...
EU rapporteur slams detention of stand-up comedian in Turkey over joke
European Parliament Turkey rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor on Friday condemned the brief detention of a stand-up comedian as “deeply alarming” after Turkish authorities launched an...
Man abducted from Tajikistan faces risk of torture, Turkish MP says
Opposition deputy and leading rights advocate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu expressed concern on Wednesday that Koray Vural, a businessman who is believed to have been...
Turkish journalist briefly detained over social media posts on school shootings
A Turkish journalist was briefly detained on Friday on accusations of publicly disseminating misinformation in social media posts related to school shootings in the...
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