Turkey arrests 34 Egyptian journalists to accelerate normalization with Egypt: report
Turkish authorities have arrested 34 Egyptian journalists who are allegedly members of the Muslim Brotherhood in an attempt to accelerate the process of normalizing...
Erdoğan’s government continues its crackdown on critics and opponents: HRW
The arrest last week in Turkey of Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı is the latest in a pattern of politically motivated cases as the government...
7 women fell victim to femicide in Turkey last week
A total of seven women were victims of femicide in various Turkish cities last week, according to data from the Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu...
Turkey’s top court rejects application from abducted teacher’s wife
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found inadmissible an individual application filed by the wife of a teacher who was the alleged victim of an enforced...
Turkey arrests 9 journalists working for pro-Kurdish media
Nine out of 11 journalists working for pro-Kurdish news outlets who were detained in police operations last week were arrested on Saturday, Turkish Minute...
Amnesty calls arrest of top doctor on ‘terror’ charges an ‘appalling abuse of power’
Prominent London-based rights group Amnesty International has condemned the arrest of the head of a leading doctors’ union in Turkey on terrorist propaganda charges, describing...
Turkish police detain 7 more people over financial aid to purge victims: journalist
Turkish police have detained an additional seven people for providing financial support to people fired from their jobs on the pretext of an anti-coup...
Prison board deems letter from former judge to opposition lawmaker ‘inappropriate’ and punishes him...
A letter written by imprisoned former judge Hüsamettin Uğur to an opposition lawmaker about poor prison conditions and ill-treatment was confiscated by an administrative...
Illegal arrivals in Germany from Turkey skyrocketed in 2022
There has been a 254 percent increase in the number of Turkish nationals entering Germany illegally over the first nine months of 2022 compared...
HDP lawmaker submits 9 parliamentary motions to investigate rights violations in Turkish prisons
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış-Beştaş has submitted nine different motions to the parliamentary committee on human rights to investigate rights violations in...
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