34 women killed by men across Turkey in October
Thirty-four women, including some as young as 12, were killed by men across Turkey in October, according to a report by the "We Will...
Jailed Turkish journalist Parıldak given courage award by Norwegian rights group
Ayşenur Parıldak, a 27-year-old reporter from Turkey’s now-closed Zaman newspaper who has been behind bars for 13 months, was named the recipient of the...
Woman, child, accountant, groom are new victims of witch hunt under Turkey’s state of...
Turkey has become a stage of enormous human rights violations under a state of emergency declared by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
CHP deputy questions PM Yıldırım about fate of 7 kidnapped people in Ankara
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu submitted a parliamentary question to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım about the fate...
Jailed Turkish journalist Parıldak says she wants to destroy perception of her as a...
Turkish journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, a former Zaman daily reporter who was given seven years, six months in prison on charges of membership in a...
Report show at least 40 women killed in October 2017 across Turkey
At least 40 women were killed while 25 women have been subjected to sexual violence and 32 children were subjected to sexual abuse in...
49-member team to report to Turkey’s Erdoğan on Gülen-linked trials
A group of 49 people, nine experts from Turkey’s State Inspection Council (DDK) and 40 key advisers of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
CoE calls on Turkey to take further steps on violence against women
The Council of Europe (CoE) on Monday called on Turkey to take further action to comply fully with the Istanbul Convention’s provisions on violence...
Abducted Turkish citizen Ümit Horzum delivered to police after 133 days of disappearance
Turkish citizen Ümit Horzum, who was kidnapped in Turkey’s capital of Ankara on December 6, 2017 over his alleged affiliation to the Gülen movement, was...
Teacher dies after allegedly falling from balcony as police raid home to detain
Gültekin Payat, a 41-year-old teacher with an outstanding arrest warrant issued against him as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the Gülen movement,...
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