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Kurdish-German politician receives death threats from Turkish far-right groups

Sevim Dağdelen, a Kurdish-German politician from the German Left Party, said she has been receiving death threats from Turkish ultranationalist groups, the Stockholm Center...

Kurdish not among 6 languages supported by app to be used against domestic violence

Kurdish will not be among the six languages and that will be supported by KADES, a smartphone app designed by the Turkish National Police...

CoE calls on Turkey to refrain from further implementing new terrorism financing law

In a letter addressed to Turkey’s interior and justice ministers made public on Wednesday, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called...

CPJ calls on Turkish gov’t to investigate mob assault on journalist Gültekin

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Turkish government to investigate a mob assault on Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin, a columnist for the...

11-month-old baby forced to accompany mother sentenced to 9 years in prison

Yasemin Melizci, 29, who was arrested on terrorism charges for alleged links to the Gülen movement and was accompanied by her 9-month-old daughter in...

New round of Greek-Turkish talks set for March 16

Greece and Turkey, both NATO members, will hold fresh talks in Athens next week to try to settle their standoff over eastern Mediterranean borders...

Turkey’s under fire pro-Kurdish party risks ban

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party is facing a political and legal onslaught that could see it banned and its MPs jailed as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Opposition leader claims domestic violence increased in Turkey after İstanbul Convention

Temel Karamollaoğlu, chairman of the Islamist opposition Felicity Party (SP), has claimed that cases of violence targeting women increased in Turkey following the adoption...

Only 1 Turkish university makes it into top 500 universities in QS ranking

At a time when there are growing concerns about declining academic freedoms in Turkey, the İstanbul-based Koç University is the only university from Turkey...

Turkey’s unemployment rate fell to 12.2 percent in January

Turkey's unemployment rate fell to 12.2 percent in January, and the worker participation rate rose toward 50 percent from a month earlier, Reuters reported,...

Twitter suspends account of Boğaziçi University rector’s office amid ongoing protests

Social media company Twitter has suspended the account of the Boğaziçi University rector's office after the prestigious school experienced more than two months of...

German minister urges Turkey to uphold freedom of speech after talk with Kurdish leaders

Michael Roth, the minister of state for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, has called on Turkey to uphold human rights, freedom of...

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