Police officers beat 11-year-old boy in Turkey’s Karabük province
Police in Turkey's northwestern Karabük province on Saturday beat an 11-year-old boy who was riding by on his bicycle, the ANKA news agency reported.
The...
Turkish deputy minister under fire for wearing expensive scarf during visit to tragedy site
Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister Mehmet Ersoy has attracted widespread criticism for wearing an expensive scarf while visiting the scene of a tragedy in the...
HRW calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting Kurdish language activities
Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Turkey to end prosecutions equating Kurdish language and cultural activities with terrorism, calling the practice discriminatory and an abuse of...
HDP lawmaker asks parliament’s Human Right Committee to investigate claims of mistreatment in Elazığ...
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu requested yesterday that the Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee investigate claims of mistreatment and torture in...
Bill preventing dismissed doctors from working in state-subsidized hospitals passes in Turkish parliament
The Turkish parliament on Friday passed a bill that would prevent doctors dismissed from their jobs during a two-year-long state of emergency from working...
Ex-police chief involved in graft probe targeting Erdoğan’s inner circle dies of cancer in...
Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former Turkish deputy police commissioner who played a key role in exposing corruption within the inner circle of then-prime minister and...
Greece to expel Turkish-Armenian writer
A Greek court has ordered the release of a Turkish-Armenian writer on condition that he leave the country within two weeks, Agence-France Presse reported...
Drawing critical of Erdoğan censored in Germany upon request from Turkish consul
A drawing by Kurdish artist Ali Zülfikar critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been censored at an exhibition in the German city...
Prosecutors seek to replace İstanbul bar chairman, executives on terror propaganda charges
Turkish prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the İstanbul Bar Association for “disseminating terrorist propaganda” over its calls for a probe into journalist deaths...
Abducted teacher says he does not have access to proper healthcare in prison
Zabit Kişi, a former teacher who was abducted from Kazakhstan by Turkish intelligence agency MİT, said in a letter to Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)...
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