Turkish court rejects arrest request for contractor in building collapse case
A court has rejected calls to arrest contractor Şükrü İşitmen despite renewed appeals from victims’ lawyers during the third hearing involving the collapse of...
UN Security Council condemns attack in Iraq’s Dohuk province
The United Nations Security Council has condemned a deadly attack in the Dohuk province of northern Iraq last week, Turkish Minute reported.
The Security Council’s...
State-run bank cancels client’s credit card due to dismissal from state job in post-coup...
Turkey’s state-run Halkbank has admitted that it canceled a credit card last year due to the fact that the owner of the card was...
CoE anti-corruption body urges Turkey to act on stalled reforms in parliament, judiciary
A high-level delegation from the Council of Europe’s (CoE) anti-corruption watchdog GRECO on Thursday called on Turkey to take urgent steps to implement long-standing recommendations aimed...
Migrants subjected to neglect, mistreatment and inhumane living conditions in repatriation centers, say experts
Migrants have been subjected to neglect, mistreatment and inhumane living conditions in Turkish repatriation centers, according to legal experts and human rights activists, the...
Suspected remains of unsolved murder victims found in SE Turkey: report
Human remains that might belong to dozens of victims of unsolved murders in Turkey’s Southeast in the 1990s have been found in a cave...
More than 50 detained ahead of banned İstanbul pride parade
Police detained more than 50 people in İstanbul on Sunday ahead of a banned LGBTQ+ pride march, the city’s bar association said, Agence France-Presse...
Authorities detain shopkeepers protesting dam construction in northeastern Turkey
Three shopkeepers were detained following protests against the construction of a dam that will submerge a town and villages in the Yusufeli district of...
Turkish gov’t arrests prominent journalist on revelation of state secrets charge
Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news director of the ultranationalist OdaTV news website, who was earlier detained by Turkish authorities as part of a probe...
RTÜK suspends programs on pro-opposition networks over remarks on religion, Erdoğan
Turkey’s media watchdog has imposed program suspension penalties and maximum fines on opposition broadcasters Sözcü TV and TELE1 for airing statements deemed to violate...
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