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Criticizing Turkey’s religious authority means supporting ‘crusaders,’ far-right MP says

A deputy from Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), stated during budget talks that...

Erdoğan breaks YouTube’s resistance

A collective resistance put up by social media platforms against Turkey’s new law entailing heavy online censorship has been broken as a statement by...

Online event sheds light on Turkey’s enforced disappearances

The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led symbolic international tribunal to review and deliver judgment on Turkey’s human rights record, held a webinar on Wednesday...

Top European judges decry situation of Turkey’s judiciary, ECtHR’s role

Several executives from European-based judges’ associations in a series of interviews with the Arrested Lawyers Initiative slammed the political control over Turkey’s judiciary as...

Chief physician removed from job after forcing nurses to confess to ‘stupidity’ in writing

The chief physician of a hospital in the southern Turkish province of Antalya was removed from her job after she forced two nurses at...

Minister says foreign assistance from Ankara may work to Turkey’s advantage at UN

Amid opposition criticism of the Turkish government for its assistance to foreign countries when the Turkish people are suffering financial hardship, a minister defended...

903 minors appeared in court on Erdoğan insult charges, opposition deputy reveals

A total of 27,717 criminal cases have been opened against people on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since he was first elected...

Turkey revealed real coronavirus numbers to get vaccines, says labor union official

The Turkish Health Ministry, which has been criticized for hiding the true scale of the coronavirus pandemic, was forced to reveal the real number...

Bill proposed by Turkey’s AKP seeks to give Erdoğan authority to freeze assets

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has proposed a bill that would allow President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to freeze the assets of people...

Amnesty slams Turkey’s human rights violations under pretext of pandemic measures

Amnesty International has criticized Turkey for the authorities’ use of punitive and coercive measures in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which have resulted...

Turkey’s top court denies release of former colonel suffering from advanced stage MS: report

Mustafa Özcan Çay, a former staff colonel convicted on coup charges, was denied release from prison by Turkey’s Constitutional Court despite his inability to...

Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons: report

Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday and Wednesday after human rights activist and...

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