Turkey has removed 146 mayors from Kurdish parties in 4 years: report
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Tuesday published an 84-page report on the removal of HDP mayors in the last four years, after the...
Turkey’s jails overflow as inmate population nears 420,000
The number of people held in Turkish prisons has risen by more than 16,000 since April, pushing the total inmate population to 419,194 as...
Femicide in Turkey: At least 275 women killed in first 10 months of 2022
At least 275 women in Turkey were killed by men between January and October despite the government’s claim that the number of femicides in...
Elderly woman subjected to police violence during protest in Ankara
Perihan Pulat, 75, sustained several injuries after police used excessive force to disperse protestors in Ankara’s Yüksel Street on May 1.
Several public servants, Acun...
Detained daughter mourns in handcuffs after being denied attendance at father’s funeral
After being denied the opportunity to attend her father’s funeral on Monday, Sueda Güngör, who is currently in pretrial detention, was allowed by Turkish...
Turkey’s request for Gülen extradition not sent to US court since it would be...
A Turkish minister has claimed that US officials haven’t sent Turkey’s requests for the extradition of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, accused by Ankara of...
Turkish parliament to amend law after Erdoğan’s call for suspension of lawyers accused of...
Turkey’s governing party has started working on an amendment to the law on lawyers following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s call on September 1 for...
İstanbul court convicts 19 in terrorism trial of girls over religious, social activities
A court in İstanbul has convicted 19 defendants and acquitted 19 others in a case known as the “girls’ trial,” which was based on...
Former general serving life sentence on coup charges dies in prison
Kemal Mutlum, a former brigadier general who was serving an aggravated life sentence on conviction of coup charges following an abortive putsch in Turkey...
Strip search of women in Turkey used for humiliation, witness testimonies show
The testimony of an increasing number of women detained on terrorism charges shows that Turkish security forces use strip searches unlawfully and systematically in...
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