Journalist Yalçın arrested in Diyarbakır
Turkish journalist Nurcan Yalçın was arrested by a court of law on Monday, after her detention by police last Friday, Turkish media reported.
Yalçın was...
PEN declares jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş an ‘honorary member
PEN Center Germany, part of PEN International, has declared jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for two years, an...
Minority and Refugee Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
Minority groups in Turkey continued to suffer from discrimination, hate speech and assaults in 2024.
Members of different minority groups, such as Kurds and Syrians,...
114 people face detention over alleged Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 114 people including former public servants who were removed from their jobs by government decrees due to...
Turkey ranks 110th among 160 countries in The Economist’s democracy index
According to the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, released by The Economist on Tuesday, Turkey was ranked 110th among 167...
UN rapporteurs criticize Turkey’s revived ‘agents of influence’ bill
United Nations rapporteurs have expressed serious concerns over the Turkish government’s reintroduction to parliament of the controversial “agents of influence” bill, warning it could...
108 Turkish journalists appeared in court in February: report
A total of 108 journalists appeared at court hearings in February, while three journalists were newly charged and three were arrested, according to the...
UPDATE: Woman in pretrial detention gives birth, returns to prison with newborn baby
Şeyma Tekin, who has been in pretrial detention for about three months, gave birth last week at a hospital in Erzurum and returned to...
Alleged Gülen movement followers in Turkey face ongoing detentions, social exclusion: Dutch gov’t report
A newly published report by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security briefing the relevant authorities on asylum applications notes that Turkish authorities continue to detain,...
Turkish treasury and finance minister says women too ‘fragile’ to do manual labor jobs
Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati on Tuesday said in a discriminatory remark that women were more fragile than men and should not...
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