Photo by Ye Jinghan (Unsplash) A 15-year-old Kurdish girl who was taken into police custody along with other family members was released 12 days later, the gazetekarınca news website reported on Wednesday. Dilan Ablay, a ...
Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest on Saturday with the wives of abductees who were ...
Mayor Evren Demir Two Kurdish co-mayors of Ağrı in eastern Turkey were subjected to excessive police force, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Betül Yaşar, who was elected mayor of Ağrı from the Peoples’ ...
A purged civil servant has discovered an entry on the web page of Turkey’s Constitutional Court that points to a possible predisposition against the cases of individuals dismissed from public service due to alleged links ...
Ercin Top / Anadolu Agency Turkish prosecutors have been conducting an investigation into İyi (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener since 2016 due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the ...
After an opposition victory in Istanbul, rumours swirl of a ruling-party split What did he think he was playing at? When Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strong-armed his country’s electoral watchdog into annulling the result ...
Human Rights Defenders (HRD) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) against 248 individuals including government agents over allegations of torture, the TR724 news website reported on Thursday. ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost the Istanbul mayoral election again. But when he meets with world leaders in Osaka, Erdogan will have even bigger challenges. When they take their ...
The ruling AKP’s loss in Istanbul’s local elections was the worst political defeat Turkey’s president has ever suffered, and it could be symbolic of a deeper crisis. Is this the beginning of the end of ...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper telephoned his Turkish counterpart on July 29 for the first time since formally taking the Pentagon’s helm, and the call did not go well. According to the Turkish read-out of the phone call, ...