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Turkish court hands down 27-year sentence to exiled journalist Dündar

A Turkish court on Wednesday handed down a prison sentence of 27 years, six months to exiled journalist Can Dündar in a trial concerning...

German arms sales to Turkey declined by $10.6 million in 2020

Figures provided by the German Ministry of Economy have revealed that arms sales to Turkey decreased by €8.7 million ($10.6 million) in 2020 compared...

70 percent of Kurdish youths face discrimination, research shows

Seventy percent of Kurdish youths in Turkey encounter discrimination in their daily lives, according to joint research conducted by the Rawest Research Center, the...

22 deputies submit parliamentary question on strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons

The women's council of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has submitted a question to the Turkish Parliament about an increasing number of allegations...

Ex-employee of Turkish embassy arrested over alleged trafficking of 100 kilos of heroin

Veysel Filiz, a former press counselor at the Turkish Embassy in Brussels and the European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion (EMISCO) spokesperson, was arrested...

İstanbul has left behind peak of second coronavirus wave: governor

The governor of Turkey’s most populous city of İstanbul has announced that the city has moved beyond the second wave peak of the coronavirus...

Turkey’s ‘hyper-presidential system’ violates separation of powers, undermines parliament: report

A report released by the Checks and Balances Network (Denge ve Denetleme Ağı, DDA), a Turkish umbrella group for 295 nongovernmental organizations, states that...

Turkey isolates 4,603 airline passengers from UK amid fears of new coronavirus strain

Turkey has identified and quarantined 4,603 airline passengers who arrived from the United Kingdom on or after Dec. 14, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca...

Kavala’s ongoing detention runs against Turkey’s commitment to rule of law: EU

The decision last Friday of an İstanbul court to continue the imprisonment of philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala on charges related to a failed...

Kurdish politician ousted from parliament sentenced to 22 years in prison

A high criminal court in southeastern Turkey has handed down a jail sentence of 22 years, three months on terrorism charges to Leyla Güven,...

Turkey sees record rise in number of new prisons, inmates during AKP rule

There has been a record rise in the number of prisons constructed as well as the number of people who were put behind bars...

Turkey halts flights from the UK, three other countries over new coronavirus strain

Turkey has temporarily halted flights from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and South Korea in an effort to prevent a new, potentially more contagious...

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