Worker strikes across Turkey met with police brutality
A wave of strikes across Turkey has been met with police intervention and allegations of brutality as employees protest layoffs, low wages and poor...
[Interview] Turkey cannot be considered a safe country for migrants and asylum seekers, says...
Member of the European Parliament Tineke Strik said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom that Turkey cannot be considered a safe...
Turkish President Erdoğan takes aim at media, claims ‘Democracy not possible with it’
Democracy is not possible with the media, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stressed, arguing that even the most powerful countries in today’s world...
Kurdish seasonal workers targeted, threatened in 2 incidents in northwest Turkey
More than 70 Kurdish seasonal farmworkers and their family members were targeted in Zonguldak over the course of two days, while another group was...
Minors questioned about prayers on third day of surreal terror trial
Fourteen high school girls are on trial in İstanbul for alleged membership in a terrorist organization as part of a decade-long crackdown on the...
Human rights violations cannot be considered the internal affairs of a country, says former...
Former European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judge Rıza Türmen said human rights violations are not the internal affairs of a country and that...
Soaring inflation leads to dismissal of Turkish Statistics Institute’s deputy director
The deputy director of the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkState) was dismissed from his job on Wednesday, the same day the institute announced that Turkey’s inflation in...
Ruling party co-founder warns of selective targeting of religious groups in Turkey
A founding member of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) warned Monday that Turkey’s recent criminal investigations into religious groups...
34 women killed by men, 20 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Thirty-four women were murdered by men in Turkey in September, and 20 more died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of...
Prison authorities encourage communal religious activities while restricting any other group activity due to...
An inmate in İzmir F-type Prison said prison authorities allow and encourage communal religious activities while restricting all other group activities due to COVID-19.
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...