Turkish nurse detained over online hair-braiding protest linked to Kurdish women in Syria
Turkish police have detained a nurse in the northwestern province of Kocaeli after she took part in an online hair-braiding protest campaign in solidarity with Kurdish...
State of emergency commission suspended justice for purge victims for years: opposition deputy
A commission set up to adjudicate complaints from individuals who were adversely affected by government decree-laws during a two-year state of emergency (OHAL) declared...
Some 8 million women in Turkey downloaded domestic violence app since 2018
Widespread fears of domestic violence have driven 7,830,000 women in Turkey to download the Women’s Emergency Support Application (KADES) since its launch in 2018,...
Appeals court upholds imprisonment of peace petition signatory academic
The İstanbul Regional Appeals Court on Sunday upheld the prison sentence of Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel, who signed a peace petition along with 1,128...
Turkish Twitter users call for release of pregnant woman kept in prison despite regulations
Turkish Twitter users launched a hashtag campaign on Sunday calling on authorities to release Huriye Acun, an eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant woman who has been kept in...
Journalists, human rights activist given suspended sentences on terror charges in Özgür Gündem trial
A Turkish court on Monday handed down suspended sentences to three journalists and prominent human rights activist Eren Keskin who were tried on charges...
Pro-Kurdish HDP appeals to Turkish court for release of jailed presidential candidate Demirtaş
Mahsuni Karaman, Yıldız İrmek, Ramazan Demir, Sertaç Buluttekin and Aygül Demirtaş, the lawyers of Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...
Austrian citizen detained at Turkish airport due to Facebook posts critical to Erdoğan
Ümit S, a Kurd born in Turkey holding Austrian citizenship, was banned from Turkey for five years for criticising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
NATO to set up temporary housing for survivors of devastating earthquakes in Turkey
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance is setting up temporary housing in Turkey and will use its strategic airlift capabilities to transport...
Turkey says more than half a million Syrians have returned home since December
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has announced that more than 500,000 Syrians who fled to Turkey during the rule of Bashar al-Assad have returned...
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