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18 women appear in court for participating in demonstration against withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

Eighteen women had their first court hearing today in Turkey’s Izmir province for participating in an August 2020 demonstration against government plans to withdraw...

Mosques get millions in funding for lighting while cemevis get high electricity bills

Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has allocated TL 103.5 million ($7.6 million) for the illumination of mosques amid recent debates regarding high electricity bills...

6 lawyers from Ankara Bar human rights committee resign following bar’s decision not to publish torture report

Six lawyers from the Ankara Bar Association’s human rights committee resigned in protest following the bar’s decision not to publish a report on allegations...

Turkish lawyers criticize government proposal seeking restrictions on alimony

Turkish lawyers in an interview criticized a government proposal to restrict the duration of alimony, saying it aimed to stop women from seeking divorce,...

Turkey’s main opposition party urges gov’t to roll back energy price hikes in nationwide protests

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday organized protests across all provinces, urging the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to withdraw...

Turkish drone used by Ethiopia killed 59 civilians sheltering in a school in Tigray: report

The Washington Post has analyzed photos of shrapnel and satellite imagery and cross-referenced video to confirm that Ethiopia used a Turkish drone in January...

66 percent of Turks want Syrian migrants to return home, says recent report

A recent report by the Istanbul-based Social Democracy Foundation (SODEV) has revealed that 66 percent of Turkish citizens want Syrian migrants to be sent back...

Healthcare workers stage strike across Turkey for improvement of working conditions

Physicians and healthcare workers who are members of Turkey’s leading healthcare unions went on a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest grueling work hours,...

Ukraine to test Turkish Bayraktar armed drones in military exercise

Ukraine is preparing to test the Bayraktar TB2 armed drones it bought from Turkey in a 10-day military exercise that will start on Feb....

Turkey’s vice president calls purge victims ‘terrorists’

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has called the victims of a massive purge of state institutions “terrorists,” accusing opposition parties of having plans for...

Journalist Yalçın arrested in Diyarbakır

Turkish journalist Nurcan Yalçın was arrested by a court of law on Monday, after her detention by police last Friday, the Stockholm Center for...

Recent report reveals more than half of minorities in Turkey reluctant to speak in mother tongue

A recent report by the Diyarbakır-based Socio-Political Research Center (Sosyo-Politik Saha Araştırmaları Merkezi) has revealed that more than half of Turkish citizens whose mother tongue...

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