Prison sentence, political ban for İstanbul mayor sparks int’l condemnation
A prison sentence and a political ban imposed on İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in a politically charged trial has sparked international condemnation, Turkish Minute...
Istanbul court sentences 6 police officers to prison over death of detainee
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced six police officers to almost four years in prison for their involvement in the death of a detainee...
Activist testifies before US congressional subcommittee on Turkey’s transnational repression
Enes Kanter Freedom, an activist and former NBA basketball player, on Wednesday testified before a subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security of the...
Turkey’s ultranationalist outsider basks in runoff fame
An also-ran who helped push Turkey to its first runoff election on May 28 is using his new-found fame to make ultranationalism mainstream and...
Afrin’s Kurdish administration calls on Assad regime to defend border against Turkey
The Kurdish-led autonomous administration that runs Afrin called Bashar al-Assad regime to send troops to help defend its border with Turkey despite Damascus’ stance against...
Students go hungry in Turkey as poverty pushes children into work: report
A report by the Education and Science Workers’ Union (Eğitim Sen) has found that widespread poverty in Turkey’s fifth largest city is pushing children...
Turkish banks continue to deny services to dismissed public servants
Turkish banks continue to deny basic services to civil servants summarily fired by the Turkish government in the aftermath of an abortive putsch in...
Amnesty urges Turkey to lift protest ban as arrests rise before NATO summit
Amnesty International has called on Turkish authorities to lift a 13-day ban on protests in Ankara and release people it described as arbitrarily detained...
Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons
Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday after human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
KESK: Over 50 public officials, who were dismissed by gov’t decrees, commit suicide in...
The Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK) has announced that more than 50 people, who were among the public employees dismissed by Turkish...
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