Turkish women’s rights activists call on authorities to thoroughly investigate female suicide cases and...
Two Turkish women's rights activists said in an interview that during the COVID-19 pandemic there had been an increase in female suicides and accidental...
Purge victim accountant reinstated to job one year after death
Mustafa Nacaroğlu, an accountant who was fired from his job by a government decree in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey...
Turkey removes another mayor from office following terrorism conviction
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has removed Mehmet Alkan, mayor of the Kağızman district of Kars province, from office after he was sentenced to more than...
Court acquits 3 who put on a show atop gate of Armenian church in...
A Turkish court has acquitted three people who in July danced on the gate of an Armenian church in İstanbul, according to the Duvar...
UN body gives law lesson to Turkey and asks immediate release of arbitrarily jailed...
The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which works under UN Human Rights Council, has called on Turkish government to immediately release...
Turkish authorities deny parole of couple imprisoned over Gülen links despite eligibility
Turkish prison authorities have denied parole to Saadet Bulun and Emre Bulun, a couple imprisoned since 2018 over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
FBI investigates transnational repression tactics of foreign governments in US
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency, indicates...
39 TRT journalists get 260 years in total on terrorism charges
The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has handed down jail sentences of varying lengths to journalists from state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) on charges...
İstanbul mayor files criminal complaint over death threat on social media
İstanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has filed a criminal complaint over a death threat made against him on social media, his lawyer has announced.
Kemal...
Germany seizes accounts of spyware firm accused of selling products to authoritarian countries including...
German authorities have seized the accounts of spyware company FinFischer amid an investigation into whether it broke export laws by selling its products to...
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