An indictment concerning the killing of prominent human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi that charges a Kurdish militant with murder is not realistic, Turkish Minute reported, citing an investigation by Forensic Architecture, a London-based multidisciplinary research group. Tweeting ...
Ayten Öztürk, who was abducted from Lebanon in 2018 by Turkish intelligence, testified in an İstanbul court yesterday about the torture and inhumane treatment she was subjected to at a black site. According to Turkish ...
Sabriye Dağdeviren, the mother of 11-year-old leukemia patient Hakan, said her son is at times cared for by their neighbors during his treatment at the hospital because his grandmother also needs to tend to her ...
A total of 15,834 Turkish nationals sought international protection in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland in 2020, according to an analysis released by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). Applications from Turkey for asylum ...
Turkey’s General Staff in 2015 drafted a list of generals and officers who were slated to be purged from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and sent it to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the list ...
Özlem Zengin, a senior official from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has come under fire once again due to remarks claiming that women who were jailed as part of a government-led crackdown on ...
A total of 19,653 Turkish citizens have fled to neighboring Greece since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a report by the Hürriyet daily, citing Greek asylum authorities. Nine thousand Turkish citizens have ...
A bipartisan group of 183 US lawmakers sent a letter on February 26 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the United States government to elevate human rights in the US-Turkey relationship to address the troubling ...
A man in the Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakır is accused of making propaganda of a terrorist organization for sharing the bizarre letter sent by former U.S. President Donald Trump to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...
Ömer Faruk and some of his family have found asylum in Turkey Tens of thousands of Uighurs have fled to Turkey to escape Chinese persecution. Yet life in exile is challenging. “I lost touch with ...