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US sanctions five Turkey-based Al-Qaeda facilitators

The US Treasury placed five Turkey-based Al-Qaeda facilitators and financiers on its sanctions blacklist Thursday, as it focuses its attention on the extremist group's...

Prosecutor seeks acquittal of Turkish-German journalist of terror charges

An İstanbul prosecutor has requested that a Turkish-German journalist who is standing trial on terror-related charges be acquitted, according to a statement from the...

US president to receive Patriarch Bartholomew at White House in October: report

US President Joe Biden will meet with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, the Istanbul-based spiritual leader of roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians, at the White...

Pro-gov’t journalists showered with awards at ceremony at Erdoğan’s palace

Not a single journalist with anti-government views was among the journalists who were showered with awards at a ceremony held at the presidential palace...

Pro-gov’t journalist tells Erdoğan to keep his hands off Islam

A pro-government journalist has called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to abandon efforts to politicize Islam, warning that such a move has the...

Turkish rights activist, Filipino journalist receive 2021 Int’l Hrant Dink Award

Canan Arın, a renowned human rights activist and lawyer in Turkey, and Maria Ressa, an investigative Filipino journalist, have been granted the 2021 International...

Pro-Kurdish party drafts booklet on detainee rights

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), whose members are frequently the subject of legal harassment, has drafted a booklet detailing a person's rights while...

Religious Affairs’ 2022 budget outstrips 7 out of 17 Turkish ministries

Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate will have a budget in 2022 that will be far bigger than the budgets of seven out of 17 ministries...

Opposition MP questions role of public officers in enforced disappearances in Turkey

The role of public officers in the enforced disappearances of the last two years has been taken to the Turkish parliament by Filiz Kerestecioğlu,...

Turkish gov’t failed to carry out most actions in its human rights action plan

The Turkish government has failed to carry out most of the actions in the new human rights action plan that was announced by President...

Turkey says it lacks capacity to handle new refugee influx: report

Turkey does not have the capacity to deal with a possible new refugee wave from Afghanistan, the Turkish president told German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for torture in Afyon province, demands investigation into perpetrators

Turkish Constitutional Court ruled in favor of an applicant who claimed that he was tortured for 25 days during his detention at Afyon police...

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