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Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community

Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as "perverts," saying the tweets...
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Police detain dozens of students protesting arrest of colleagues over LGBT poster

Dozens of arrests were made in İstanbul on Monday after riot police dispersed students who tried to hold a demonstration outside Boğaziçi University protesting...
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Alleged torture at Ankara Police Department prompts appeal to UN body

The International Association for Human Rights Advocacy in Geneva (IAHRA GENEVA) has filed an appeal with the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) concerning...
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Staunchly pro-Erdoğan prosecutor climbing judicial career ladder quickly

Cevheri Güven Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed İrfan Fidan as a new judge to serve on the Constitutional Court. Fidan, known for his...
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Parents imprisoned, 11-year-old diagnosed with leukemia

Hakan Dağdeviren, an 11-year-old boy whose parents are imprisoned as part of a crackdown in Turkey targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, has...
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Thousands of lives ruined in continuing crackdown on Gülen movement in 2020: report

According to Human Rights Watch, the largest group targeted by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan consists of people alleged to have links to the Gülen...
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Erdoğan takes aim at LGBT community at party meeting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attacked the LGBT community at a party meeting on Monday, saying his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would...
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ECtHR requests Turkey’s defense for imprisonment of Kurdish leader over Kobani protests

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Turkey to provide its defense for the pre-trial detention of Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş in...
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Local Kurdish politician in İstanbul arrested on terrorism charges

A district co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in İstanbul has been arrested on terrorism charges, according to Turkish media reports. On Jan....
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Crimes committed against Atatürk’s memory see big rise under AKP rule: report

There has been a significant rise in the number of acts considered crimes against the memory of Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, under...
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2 Boğaziçi students arrested over artwork depicting Kaaba with LGBT flags

Two students from the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University were arrested on Sunday on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values in a poster depicting...
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17th century Armenian church on preservation list demolished in western Turkey

An Armenian church dating to 1603 in the western province of Kütahya that was on the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s preservation list...
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