Police raid pro-Kurdish HDP’s Diyarbakır office for third time
Turkish police on Thursday raided the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır office for the third time, detaining three party members on a hunger...
Turkey’s top court strikes down rule allowing state agency to withhold government ads from...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has struck down a law granting the Press Advertising Agency (BİK) authority to suspend the distribution of government advertisements to...
AKP ministers left 23,000 parliamentary questions from MPs unanswered in five years
The ministers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have failed to answer one-third of the parliamentary questions directed to them by lawmakers...
Imprisoned Kurdish singer requests release due to multiple health problems
Imprisoned Kurdish singer Nudem Durak has called on Turkish authorities to release her from prison, saying she suffers from multiple illnesses and wants to...
Brussels-based NGO demonstrates against illegal pushbacks
A Brussels-based human rights monitor on Sunday organized a demonstration in front of the Brussels Central Train Station against pushbacks at the Turkish-Greek border,...
Sweden agrees to one Turkey extradition amid NATO bid
Sweden said Thursday it would extradite a Turkish citizen wanted by Ankara but rejected another request, with extraditions being one of Ankara’s key demands...
My husband was tortured multiple times and wanted to die, says wife of inmate...
Nazlı Vatansever, the wife of Şeref Vatansever, a former computer science teacher who died of COVID-19 on Sunday after contracting the disease in northwestern...
Court says killing of Kurdish student by police officer in SE Turkey was ‘legal’
A regional appeals court has ruled that no charges can be leveled against a police officer who shot a Kurdish university student to death...
Germany rejects Turkey’s request for judicial assistance in trial of Kurdish singer and activist...
The Darmstadt Prosecutor General's Office denied a Turkish court's request for judicial assistance in the trial of famous singer and activist Ferhat Tunç, on...
Turkish court lifts travel ban on Turkish-German journalist’s husband
A Turkish court on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on Suat Çorlu, the husband of Turkish-German journalist Meşale Tolu, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported.
The...
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