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Kurdish PKK militants burn their weapons at symbolic ceremony in Iraq

Thirty outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish militants...

ECtHR rules Turkey violated right to a fair trial in 3 cases involving post-coup dismissals

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Turkey violated the right to a fair trial in three separate cases concerning mass dismissals...

Opposition leader recalls 2013 graft probe as Erdoğan cracks down on CHP over corruption

Turkey’s main opposition leader on Wednesday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of shielding ruling party members from corruption charges, invoking graft raids in 2013...

[OPINION] Turkey’s justice crisis under Strasbourg’s spotlight

Adem Yavuz Arslan* This week the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued another series of judgments against Turkey, which raised the number of individuals whose...

Delegation leaves Diyarbakır for PKK’s symbolic laying-down-of-arms ceremony in Iraq

A delegation of journalists, politicians, civil society leaders and pro-Kurdish party members departed Diyarbakır on Thursday for northern Iraq to attend a ceremony in...

Erdoğan demotes propaganda chief amid speculation of tensions with head of intelligence

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has removed longtime communications director Fahrettin Altun, reassigning him to lead the country’s human rights and equality agency, a...

Journalists, minors among over 119,000 under judicial supervision in Turkey

More than 119,000 people in Turkey, including opposition journalists and minors, are currently under judicial supervision, raising concerns about the growing use of court-imposed...

Turkey denies claims of negligence after 12 soldiers die from gas exposure in northern Iraq

Turkey’s defense ministry has denied allegations of negligence following the death of 12 Turkish soldiers due to gas exposure during a cave operation in...

Turkey bans content of X’s AI chatbot Grok amid criminal probe over insults

A Turkish court has ordered the blocking of content produced by Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said...

Erdoğan joins far-right ally in backing live broadcast of chief rival İmamoğlu’s trial

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday gave his approval to a proposal for the upcoming trial of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the president’s...

Opposition under siege: 16 CHP mayors jailed, one under house arrest in Turkey

A sweeping crackdown on Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has intensified over the past year, with 16 mayors jailed and one put...

US officially informs Turkey of the death of Islamic scholar Gülen

The death of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in the US last year was officially confirmed through diplomatic channels, according to documents sent from...

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