Vital needs grow in northwest Syria after last week’s earthquakes: MSF
Vital needs continue to grow in the northwest of Syria hit by last week’s devastating earthquakes, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said.
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Şenyaşar family calls on people to break Ramadan fast with them in front of...
Members of the Şenyaşar family, who have been demanding justice for three of their relatives murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from the...
Organizers of art exhibition in İstanbul under investigation for LGBT propaganda
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the organizers of an art exhibition in İstanbul after the exhibition was targeted by religious and nationalist...
Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them
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Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...
Turkish court rules rights of man wrapped in plastic wrap and deported were violated
A Turkish court has ruled that the Ministry of Interior violated the rights of a Cameroonian man who was wrapped in plastic and put...
Turkish court rules for continuation of arrest of Zaman columnist Ali Ünal
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has ruled for the continuation of the arrest of former Zaman daily columnist...
Sweden urges Turkey to release journalist
Sweden’s foreign minister met with her Turkish counterpart on Thursday to ask for the release of a Swedish journalist convicted in Turkey of insulting...
Turkish prison authorities refuse to take inmate suffering from cancer to state institute that...
Turkish prison authorities have refused to take a seriously ill inmate for an evaluation by the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), which could authorize...
Ailing 85-year-old inmate freed following years of appeals by rights advocates
Halil Karakoç, an 85-year-old retired imam imprisoned over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was released from Menemen Prison on Thursday after spending...
Gov’t denies assistance to autistic teen due to father’s alleged links to Gülen movement
A district governor’s office in Hatay province has been refusing to provide assistance to the family of Rüveyda Tekgöz, a 16-year-old autistic girl because...
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