Turkish asylum seekers ask Greek authorities for urgent help in social media post
Turkish asylum seekers posted a video on social media on Thursday from the Greek border town Feres, asking Greek authorities for urgent help and...
Social media platforms pose threat to Turkey’s sovereignty: ruling party spokesman
Spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ömer Çelik called social media companies the source of digital fascism and digital dictatorship, saying...
Turkish gov’t detains 25 people over their alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police detained 25 people, including university students who study in the faculties of engineering and medicine, on Saturday in Adana province over their...
Turkish court orders release pending trial of lawyer in high-profile cases
A Turkish court has ordered the release of Rezan Epözdemir, a Turkish lawyer known for representing clients in several high-profile murder and fraud cases,...
Turkish police detain 23 during Saturday Mothers’ 945th weekly demonstration
Turkish police have detained 23 people, including activists and family members of the Saturday Mothers, during the group’s 945th weekly demonstration in İstanbul’s Galatasaray...
Enforced disappearances worryingly common in Turkey, say human rights activists
Enforced disappearances are becoming worryingly common in Turkey, and most disappearances are not effectively investigated by prosecutors, said an international group of human rights...
Turkish court arrests 2 Kurdish youths for drawing Demirtaş’s electric kettle on walls
Two young men who drew pictures of electric kettles and wrote the name of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on walls in İstanbul’s...
Governor’s office in southeastern Turkey bans pro-Kurdish rally for Öcalan’s freedom
The governor’s office in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır has banned a planned rally calling for the release of imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...
EU chiefs congratulate Turks on ‘massive’ vote turnout
EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel congratulated Turkish voters on their large turnout in the first round of national elections, hailing...
Brother of police inspector found dead in quarantine cell points to ill-treatment and gross...
Harun Kabakçıoğlu, the brother of former police inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu who was found dead on a chair in a quarantine cell in prison in...
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