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Turkish police give incorrect information to women requesting help against abusive partners

Turkish police departments are giving incorrect and conflicting information to women who request assistance and protection against violent and abusive partners, the Stockholm Center...

Refugee family’s newborn stranded in hospital until family pays bill

A hospital in İstanbul has refused to discharge the newborn baby of a refugee family for the past four months because the family has...

Top court upholds sentences given to media executive, police chiefs on terror charges

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld prison sentences handed down to Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca and former police chiefs on...

Turkey registered lowest child population rate of past 85 years in 2020

Children made up 27.2 percent of Turkey’s population in 2020, down from 27.5 percent in 2019 and the lowest since 1935, according to data...

Turkey makes it onto Switzerland‘s high-risk list as coronavirus cases soar

Turkey was added to Switzerland’s high-risk quarantine list as of Monday as the country attempts to bring the soaring number of coronavirus cases down. Travelers...

Turkey is ranked 153rd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2021 press freedom index

Turkey has been ranked 153rd out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2021 World Press Freedom Index, up from 154th last...

Turkish journalist faces 18 years for covering press statement release

Ruşen Takva, a freelance journalist based in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, has been indicted by a prosecutor for attending the release of a...

Son of jailed former MP calls on top court to prioritize father’s petition

The son of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a renowned human rights activist and former member of the Turkish Parliament who was expelled from the legislature...

Former judge jailed on Gülen links dies from cancer shortly after release

Former judge Alparslan Güngör, who was imprisoned for three years on alleged Gülen links and diagnosed with stage four lung cancer shortly after his...

At a time when women need protection the most, the Turkish gov’t is doing the exact opposite, says novelist Elif Şafak

Withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention will have a disastrous effect on women, children and the LGBTQ+ community, said novelist Elif Şafak in a recent...

Engineer jailed over Gülen links dies of cancer after belated release from prison

Industrial engineer Abdülazim Özdemir, 49, who was diagnosed with liver cancer during his 24-month incarceration on terrorism charges, died on Friday in Ankara, the...

Turkish court says former public servant should be issued passport in landmark decision

An administrative court in central Turkey’s Konya province has ruled that a former public servant summarily removed from his job by an executive decree...

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