HDP lawmaker asks parliament’s Human Right Committee to investigate claims of mistreatment in Elazığ...
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu requested yesterday that the Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee investigate claims of mistreatment and torture in...
2 teenagers in Turkey face prison sentences for insulting Atatürk, denigrating religious values
Turkish prosecutors have demanded prison terms for a 17-year-old who was arrested last week over a video of him performing a lewd act with...
Prison authorities deny essential medication to university student arrested in Istanbul protests
A university student arrested for joining nationwide protests over the detention and subsequent arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has claimed that prison authorities...
CPJ urges Turkey to stop using disinformation law against journalists
Turkish authorities must end their improper and excessive use of the country’s disinformation law to target journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday,...
Turkish gov’t detains actor Ömer Pekin over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish theater player Ömer Pekin, who has been mostly known with his role in Turkish radio comedy "Perişan FM (Miserable FM)" and state-run TRT's...
Diyanet pens different texts for Friday sermons in Turkey and abroad on 6th anniversary...
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) prepared two different texts to be read for this week’s Friday sermons that will be delivered in Turkey...
21 bar associations, NGOs call for release of 83-year-old inmate with severe health problems
Twenty-one bar associations and civil society organizations on Friday issued a joint statement calling on Turkish authorities to release Mehmet Emin Özkan, an 83-year-old...
53 teachers died by suicide after dismissal from their jobs: labor union
Fifty-three teachers died by suicide in Turkey after being dismissed from their jobs by emergency decree-laws in the aftermath of a coup attempt in...
I worry about my unborn baby’s life, pregnant inmate with health problems says
Arzu Nur Özkan, a seven-month-pregnant former teacher, said she is afraid for her baby’s life because of the health problems she is experiencing due...
Eight killed in land dispute in southeastern Turkey
At least eight people died in a shootout between two families fighting over prized agricultural land in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, Agence France-Presse reported, citing...
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