Turkish women call for end to gender-based violence and discrimination on International Women’s Day
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, Turkish women’s rights activists have called for an end to gender-based violence, which is worryingly common in the...
Journalist investigated due to report on religious group as Turkish Red Crescent’s supplier
A journalist from an anti-government newspaper in Turkey is being investigated for allegedly spreading disinformation in a tweet and a report about the Turkish...
Journalists in Turkey targeted due to critical earthquake, election coverage in 2023: report
A report by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Safety of Journalists Platform has shown that journalists in Turkey were questioned, intimidated and arrested, while...
Former university rector fighting cancer acquitted in Gülen-linked case
A Turkish court has found a former university rector innocent after he was subjected to legal harassment including detention and house arrest — all...
Hospitalization of 84-year-old jailed general leads to calls for presidential pardon
The hospitalization of an 84-year-old retired general who is in prison for his role in the issuance of a military memorandum against the government...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violation in travel ban imposed on activist
In a landmark decision Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a travel ban imposed on a human rights activist constituted a violation of her...
Turkey’s HSK refuses to review claims of witness tampering by prosecutors in lawyer’s murder
Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has refused to consider a complaint against two prosecutors who investigated the 2015 murder of a prominent...
MP claims Turkish military installed scanners, is strip-searching inhabitants of Kurdish village
The Turkish military has set up X-ray scanners at the entrance of a Kurdish-majority village in southeast Turkey and has allegedly been strip-searching incoming...
3 journalists released after 3 days in police custody in eastern Turkey
Three journalists who were detained in the eastern province of Van following raids on their houses earlier this week have been released from detention,...
Policeman sentenced to 30 months in prison for 2014 killing of man at İstanbul...
A Turkish court that retried a police officer for the 2014 murder of a man at an Alevi house of worship in İstanbul has...
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