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Police violence against members of anti-gov’t religious group sparks outrage

Turkish police in the southern province of Adana sparked outrage when they employed batons, plastic bullets and pepper spray in what many said was...

Jailed businessman Kavala back in court, remanded again

Turkey's leading activist Osman Kavala, who at the weekend marked his 1,600th day in prison without conviction, appeared before court Monday for the first...

Critical Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden brutally attacked

Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who has been living in exile in...

Kurdish student victim of threats, racist attacks for declining to vote for AKP in 2023

A Kurdish student in a religious imam-hatip high school in Turkey’s northwestern province of Kocaeli was the subject of threats and racist attacks after...

Amnesty calls for acquittal of Kavala, others ahead of hearing in new Gezi Park trial

Amnesty International on Friday called for the acquittal and immediate release of businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala and seven other defendants ahead of the...

Turkey ordered detention of 63 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 63 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Stockholm Center...

Turkish Interior Ministry to file complaint against opposition mayor over anti-Syrian remarks

Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister İsmail Çataklı on Wednesday said the ministry would file a criminal complaint against an opposition mayor in southern Turkey for...

TurkStat raises eyebrows for stopping release of elderly death statistics amid pandemic

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), which is at the center of an ongoing controversy concerning the reliability of the data it releases, has raised...

Turkey drops 8 spots on World Happiness Report, ranks 112th

Turkey has been ranked 112th in the World Happiness Report 2022, in which Nordic countries again secured the top spots, in a world beset...

EP rapporteur slams Turkish gov’t over use of terror accusations to stifle criticism

Turkey is using broad accusations of terrorism to silence critics, said Nacho Sánchez Amor, an MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)...

Former intel official held in solitary confinement for being ‘dangerous inmate’: daughter

The daughter of a former official at Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) who was last year handed down a lengthy prison sentence due to...

ECtHR rejects application on Turkish gov’t failure to find Yusuf Bilge Tunç

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected an application claiming that Turkish authorities failed to carry out an effective investigation into the...

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