Father of Çorlu train accident victims dies of heart attack
Erdinç Dikmen, the father of two girls who died in a high-speed train accident in Turkey in 2018, on Friday died of a heart...
Turkish court bans access to 2021 report on internet censorship in Turkey
A Turkish court has banned access to the 2021 annual report of the Freedom of Expression Association’s (İFÖD) EngelliWeb initiative, which focuses on the growing internet...
US Human Rights Report: Lack of access to health care remained a problem at...
Overcrowding, particularly following the mass detentions after a 2016 coup attempt and lack of access to adequate health care remained problems at Turkish prisons...
Pastor Brunson’s lawyer appeals to Turkish Constitutional Court
İsmail Cem Halavurt, the lawyer for Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who is standing trial in Turkey on terrorism-related charges, on Wednesday appealed to...
Turkish court faults Birgün daily for report on Erdoğan’s son-in-law
An İstanbul court has ruled in favor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technical officer of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle...
Rights activist briefly detained by Turkish police following fundraising for cancer patient
Natali Avazyan, a Turkish-Armenian human rights activist, tweeted on Tuesday that she was being taken into police custody, adding that the police had raided...
Turkey’s top court rules government violated academic’s freedom of expression
The Constitutional Court of Turkey has ruled that the government violated academic Yaman Akdeniz’s right to freedom of expression by refusing to release official...
Authorities’ negligence kills a pregnant woman and her baby in Turkish prison
A jailed Turkish pregnant woman, who was imprisoned in T-Type Prison in Ereğli district of Konya provision and her baby have lost their lives...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan survives but faces more serious challenges in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
After winning the controversial election on Sunday in Turkey after a not free and certainly not fair election campaign, Turkish President Recep...
86-year-old Turkish philanthropist arrested over Gülen links
Eighty-six-year-old Turkish businessman Celal Afşar was arrested on Thursday along with his daughter, son-in-law and two others in Niğde province as part of an...
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