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Turkey marks Women’s Day amid increasing domestic violence, political imprisonment of women

Thousands of women from all walks of life who were jailed on politically motivated charges in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey...

2 journalists given suspended sentences on charges of revealing state secrets

A Turkish court has handed down suspended sentences to Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news editor for the OdaTV news website, and İsmail Dükel, the...

Court finds Interior Ministry culpable in killing of Kurdish girl in SE Turkey

A Turkish court has found the country’s Interior Ministry culpable in the killing of a 12-year-old Kurdish girl in southeastern Diyarbakır province in 2009 by...

Uighur women march in İstanbul against China camps

Several hundred Muslim Uighur women in Turkey staged an International Women's Day march along the Bosporus on Monday demanding the closure of mass incarceration...

US-convicted banker quits as İstanbul exchange chief

A top Turkish banker convicted in the US of busting sanctions on Iran resigned on Monday as the chief executive of the İstanbul stock...

With heavy hearts, Syrians in Turkey pursue new lives

Some are coping, others struggling, but Syrian refugees in Turkey say they dare not follow their dreams and return home while President Bashar al-Assad...

Google favors pro-gov’t media over critical outlets in Turkey: report

An International Press Institute (IPI) report has shown that news-related Google searches are much more likely to produce results from pro-government media outlets than...

90 pct of female healthcare workers in Turkey think they’re underpaid: report

A total of 92.6 percent of female healthcare workers in Turkey have stated that their wages are not enough to meet their needs amid...

Missile strikes on Syrian oil refineries in area controlled by Turkey kill 4: monitor

Missile strikes on makeshift oil refineries in Turkish-controlled northern Syria have killed four people and injured more than 20 others, Agence France-Presse reported on...

Human rights not protected in Turkey due to gov’t control over judiciary: report

A report authored by Italian judge Luca Perilli and recently published by the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led symbolic international tribunal to review and...

Turkey’s military brass joins naval drills in Mediterranean

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and top military officers on Saturday joined naval drills on an exploration vessel at the heart of a dispute...

Over a quarter of women in Turkey feel insecure in their neighborhood: TurkStat

The results of a survey released on Friday by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) showed that 27.3 percent of women felt insecure when walking...

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