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1,209 workers in Turkey have died of COVID-19 to date: report

Turkey has recorded the death of 1,209 workers from COVID-19 during the 18 months of the pandemic, with blue collar workers emerging as one of...

Active duty military officers among 26 detained over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 42 people including active duty military officers, 26 of whom have so far been detained, due to...

Turkey strips 14 retired generals of their rank for ‘postmodern’ coup conviction

Turkey has stripped of their rank 14 retired generals who were convicted on coup charges for their role in a military intervention in 1997,...

Third Turkish soldier dies after Syria assault

The number of Turkish soldiers killed in an attack in Syria on Saturday has risen from two to three, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Turkey's...

Opposition MP slams top imam for making political statements

Engin Özkoç, deputy group chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has criticized President of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) Ali Erbaş...

Turkey urges ‘gradual engagement’ with Taliban at UNSC meeting

Turkey’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Feridun Sinirlioğlu said during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday that Ankara believes the right...

2 Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib: ministry

Two Turkish soldiers died and three others were wounded in an attack in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib, the Turkish Defense Ministry said...

Government vehicles hit 57 pedestrians in 4 years, killing 16 and injuring 41

A total of 16 pedestrians, including nine children and a disabled person, have died after being hit by government vehicles since 2018, the Stockholm...

211 people killed, 248 maltreated, tortured in Turkey in July: report

Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in July included 211 deaths and 248 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 67 of them taking...

Turkey orders hundreds of detentions over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 279 people in the last five days due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Stockholm...

Family fears deportation to China of Uyghur detained in Ä°stanbul

The family of Kurban Tohtiniyaz, a Uighur who was detained in Ä°stanbul on September 6, fears his deportation to China, the Stockholm Center for...

Top court says travel ban violated peace academic’s rights

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has said a travel ban imposed on one of the academics who were dismissed from their jobs for signing a peace...

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