15 LGBTQ groups say Turkey detentions before NATO summit criminalize rights activism
LGBTQ rights groups in Turkey on Wednesday called for the immediate release of journalist and activist Yıldız Tar and others detained in sweeping raids...
Iranian at risk of deportation from Turkey could face execution
Bijan Moradi, an Iranian national scheduled to be deported from Turkey on Saturday, might face imprisonment, torture and even the death penalty upon his...
Ex-minister confirms authenticity of evidence against him in 2013 graft probe
Erdoğan Bayraktar, the former Turkish minister of environment and urban planning, said on Sunday the evidence against him included in the case-file of the...
Turkish gov’t reportedly launches food embargo on Kurdish villages
The Turkish government has started to reimplement a food embargo that was in force during the 1990s on Kurdish villages in the eastern and...
25 arrested in probes into 2 CHP-run municipalities in İstanbul, İzmir
Turkish courts have arrested 25 people, including a district mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), in two separate investigations into CHP-run...
European rights court faults Turkey over arrest of UN judge in post-coup crackdown
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey over the pretrial detention and arrest of a UN judge with diplomatic immunity following...
Turkish court sentences famous fashion designer to prison for ‘insulting the government’
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced fashion designer and activist Barbaros Şansal to three months, 22 days in prison for insulting the government, the...
Turkish Education Ministry’s removal of co-education clause from regulations stirs debate
The removal of a co-education clause from the Education Ministry's regulations by the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stirred a...
Dismissed Turkish military doctor alleges retaliation for exposing abuse of conscripts
A Turkish military doctor has filed a legal challenge after being dismissed from the armed forces, alleging she was expelled in retaliation for reporting...
‘Turkey’s clandestine deep state gang takes revenge from prominent journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan’
Yalçın Ergündoğan, a columnist for online news portal in Turkish, Artı Gerçek, wrote that Turkey's clandestine deep state gang, Ergenekon, takes revenge from Ahmet...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...