Alevi organizations call on Turkish authorities to abolish compulsory religious classes and recognize cemevis...
Alevi organizations on Sunday staged demonstrations in several provinces of Turkey demanding that compulsory religion classes in schools be abolished and that cemevis, Alevi...
Mother of former military cadet stages protest in Ankara, demanding justice for imprisoned...
Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who is serving a life sentence for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey...
Woman arrested to serve sentence for conviction of Gülen links, leaving children to the...
A mother of three on Sunday was arrested to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement, leaving her children to...
Erdoğan aide says ‘age of inequality is over’ about US criticism of media ban
An aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed a statement from a US State Department official who criticized a recent move by...
2 inmates in Turkish prisons continue hunger strike as authorities reject demands
Two inmates in Turkish prisons staging hunger strikes said they would be continuing their protests indefinitely after the Ministry of Justice rejected their demands,...
62 former military cadets indicted on coup charges 5.5 years after coup attempt
Turkish prosecutors have indicted 62 former military cadets on charges of attempting to overturn the constitutional order due to their alleged role in a...
Court acquits Diyarbakır lawyers tried for Armenian genocide, Kurdistan remarks
A Turkish court has acquitted current and former administrators of the Diyarbakır Bar Association who stood trial over references to the “Armenian genocide” and...
Turkey working on plan to reduce migrant population in designated provinces
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has reportedly started to prevent migrants from settling in 16 provinces in an effort to reduce their concentration in those areas,...
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,...
Demirtaş’s prison sentence for insulting Erdoğan upheld by appeals court
An appeals court has upheld a prison sentence of three-and-a-half years handed down to Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
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