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Students protesting Erdoğan-appointed rector at risk of prosecution: HRW

Turkish authorities have put hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, releasing a report on rights...

Defending human rights in Turkey as a way of life: Eren Keskin

Alin Ozinian The Turkish government is continuing to target and punish journalists and human rights defenders in the country. The latest attempt was on Monday,...

Jailed Kurdish leader denounces killing of PKK hostages, blames gov’t for botched rescue attempt

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has denounced the killing of 13 Turkish nationals held hostage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blaming the...

Erdoğan’s harsh remarks targeting opposition leader censored by own team

Turkey's Presidential Communications Directorate has on its official website censored recent remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that directly targeted main opposition Republican People’s...

Writer criticizes Google Ads for rejecting advertisements in Kurdish

Writer Rêzan Tovjîn has said the Turkey team of Google Ads is responsible for rejecting a request to advertise a book titled “Şerm” (Shame),...

One in every four journalists in Turkey suffered physical violence in 2020: report

One out of every four journalists was subjected to physical violence and half of them received threats in 2020, a report recently released by...

Women’s group protesting Erdoğan’s all-female university detained in Ankara

A group of women was detained on Tuesday in Ankara after they attempted to stage a demonstration against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s initiative for...

Turkish authorities must end vindictive prosecutions of former staffers of Özgür Gündem: CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked Turkish authorities to drop all charges against former staffers of Özgür Gündem, a now-defunct newspaper that had...

IHD, Saturday Mothers call for effective investigation into disappearance of former bureaucrat

The Human Rights Association (İHD) asked Turkish authorities to urgently find Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former bureaucrat who has been missing since December 29,...

Turkey looking for who to blame for disastrous hostage operation

Cevheri Güven Last week’s botched rescue mission by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in northern Iraq that resulted in the death of all 13 hostages...

Pro-gov’t discourse dominates Turkish media landscape: report

An overwhelming majority of Turkish media outlets give little to no screen time to opposition pundits while allocating the lion's share to a handful...

Secret letter reveals how Turkey’s Justice Ministry asked prison administration to isolate former high court judges

Turkey’s Ministry of Justice asked the Keskin chief public prosecutor to take a series of measures to isolate and closely monitor the communications of...

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