HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question regarding underage inmates confined with adults in Maltepe Prison
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit in a parliamentary question addressing the Turkish Ministry of Justice asked if it was true that...
Turkish gov’t dismisses more than 18,500 civil servants over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government dismissed a total of 18,632 public employees from their posts by a government decree under the state of emergency declared in the...
11-year-old girl with Down syndrome deteriorates after arrest of her mother on Gülen links
Ayşe Asude Gök, an 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome, stopped interacting with her caregivers after her mother was arrested to serve a sentence for...
Criticism mounts over lack of effective response to forest fire in SE Turkey
Criticism has been growing over the lack of an effective response to a forest fire in the Şemdinli district of Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province,...
Turkish gov’t secretly investigated family members of critical journalists
The Turkish government secretly investigated the family members of journalists critical of the government including their spouses and children, a document obtained by Nordic...
Watchdogs call on Turkish authorities to ensure all charges against Human Rights Association co-chair...
Human rights watchdogs on Monday called on Turkish authorities to ensure that all charges against Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chair of Turkey's oldest human rights group,...
Students dancing to Kurdish folk songs beaten by far-right group in Turkey’s Karaman province
A group of university students in Turkey's southern Karaman province were attacked by the far-right ultranationalist Grey Wolves for dancing to Kurdish music, the...
Turkish lawyers criticize government proposal seeking restrictions on alimony
Turkish lawyers in an interview criticized a government proposal to restrict the duration of alimony, saying it aimed to stop women from seeking divorce,...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s troubles with the US are poisoning trade ties
By Abdullah Bozkurt
As expected, Turkey’s troubling disengagement from political and security cooperation with the United States due to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s anti-Western, Islamist...
Turkish courts sentence 1,760 defendants to life over their alleged role in coup attempt
Turkish courts have sentenced a total of 2,619 defendants to lengthy prison terms, including life sentences for 1,760 of them, in 204 out of 286...
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