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Jailed former CHP deputy to go on hunger strike in protest of trial

Republican People’s Party deputy Barış Yarkadaş announced on Halk TV that former CHP deputy Eren Erdem, who has been in pretrial detention for seven...

HDP will not nominate candidates for İstanbul, Adana, İzmir mayoral elections

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on Monday that they would not field candidates for the March 31 mayoral elections in the metropolitan...

Kurdish protesters storm Turkish military camp in Iraq: report

An angry crowd on Saturday stormed a Turkish military camp in Iraq's Kurdish region in protest against Turkish airstrikes in the area, which are...

Hundreds of engineers exit Turkey’s largest defense contractor

The head of Turkish electronics defense contractor ASELSAN has confirmed the departure of some 200 engineers from the company, adding to the anxieties of...

Journalist gets 8 years, 3 months for alleged terror links

The Muş 2nd High Criminal Court on Friday handed down a sentence of eight years, three months in prison to journalist İdris Sayılğan after...

Turkey’s Constitutional Court re-elects its incumbent president Aslan

Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Thursday re-elected Zühtü Arslan as its president, according to the Hürriyet Daily News. Arslan received the support of nine members in...

Court releases Kurdish deputy on hunger strike from prison

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Güven, who has been on a hunger strike for 79 days, was released from jail on Friday by...

Turkey’s interior minister admits police remove female detainees’ headscarves

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu admitted on Thursday that police in detention centers remove female detainees’ headscarves “for security reasons,” the ilkha news website...

Young Turkish prisoner found dead in prison ward

Burak Cihangir, a 26-year-old man who was recently put under arrest in İskenderun in southern Turkey, was found hanging in the toilet of the...

Another pregnant woman jailed in Turkey with toddler, says rights defender deputy

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Thursday reported a new case of a pregnant woman detained in...

[UPDATE] Turkish religious foundation chair Kuytul rearrested

A Turkish court on Saturday morning ordered the rearrest of Alparslan Kuytul, the chairman of a religious foundation, after a prosecutor appealed the previous...

Cases from Turkey rank 4th among 47 states at Europe’s top human rights court

Turkey ranks fourth among 47 countries in number of applications to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), according to a tally of submissions...

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