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Enforced disappearances worryingly common in Turkey, say human rights activists

Enforced disappearances are becoming worryingly common in Turkey, and most disappearances are not effectively investigated by prosecutors, said an international group of human rights...
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Nearly 10,000 people convicted on Erdoğan insult charges in 5 years

Turkish courts convicted 9,556 people on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over the course of five years, an opposition lawmaker has revealed. Main...
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Ankara police accused of abducting 3 university students in broad daylight

Ankara police have been accused of abducting three university students today and abandoning them in distant parts of the city after threatening and beating...
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Students protesting Erdoğan-appointed rector at risk of prosecution: HRW

Turkish authorities have put hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, releasing a report on rights...
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Defending human rights in Turkey as a way of life: Eren Keskin

Alin Ozinian The Turkish government is continuing to target and punish journalists and human rights defenders in the country. The latest attempt was on Monday,...
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Jailed Kurdish leader denounces killing of PKK hostages, blames gov’t for botched rescue attempt

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has denounced the killing of 13 Turkish nationals held hostage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blaming the...
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Erdoğan’s harsh remarks targeting opposition leader censored by own team

Turkey's Presidential Communications Directorate has on its official website censored recent remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that directly targeted main opposition Republican People’s...
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Happiness level among Turkish people declined in 2020: survey

The number of people over the age of 18 who describe themselves as happy declined in Turkey in 2020, dropping to 48.2 percent of...
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Erdoğan files TL 500,000 lawsuit against opposition leader over Gara remarks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against the head of the country’s main opposition party for TL 500,000 ($71,000) in damages...
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Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for police violence against journalist in 2015 protest

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the government to pay TL 15,000 ($2,160) in damages to journalist Beyza Kural, who was subjected to ill-treatment by...
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Writer criticizes Google Ads for rejecting advertisements in Kurdish

Writer Rêzan Tovjîn has said the Turkey team of Google Ads is responsible for rejecting a request to advertise a book titled “Şerm” (Shame),...
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Turkey keeps main interest rate steady at 17 percent

Turkey's central bank on Thursday kept its main interest rate unchanged at 17 percent for the second month in a row to support a...
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