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Baby accompanying mother in prison joins 700 other kids growing up behind bars

Selma Betül Urunga, a 2-year-old whose parents were jailed as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting Gülen movement followers, has been sent to Mersin Prison to...

Teacher who pleaded with gov’t to spare children’s lives vindicated by top Turkish court

Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of Kurdish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who during a TV program in 2016 called for an end to...

Turkey cancels press accreditation of 682 journalists in 4 months

The Turkish government cancelled 682 press cards between November and March, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Thursday. According to the report there were 15,423 permanent press card...

Photo of woman in German language textbook doctored to include headscarf

The photo of an elderly woman in a German language textbook provided to students by the Turkish Education Ministry turns out to have been photoshopped to...

36 women in Turkey murdered in April: report

A report released by the Stop the Murder of Women Platform shows that 36 women in Turkey were murdered in April. According to the report the...

4 women, 5 children die after migrant boat sinks off Turkish coast

Four women and five children died on Friday after their migrant boat sank off the Turkish coast, the coastguard said, AFP reported. The boat went down off...

NBA fires Turkish social media vendor after Enes Kanter censored in tweets

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has fired the Turkish company in charge of operating its Turkish-centric Twitter account after it failed to mention Enes Kanter’s efforts...

Turkish court acquits purged teacher 3 months after he dies at construction site in work-related accident

A Turkish appeals court on Tuesday acquitted a purge victim teacher who died three months ago while working at a construction site, the tr724 news website...

Turkey orders detention of 62 including military, police officers, over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors on Monday and Tuesday ordered the detention of 62 people, including military members and police officers, as part of a massive post-coup crackdown targeting...

Turk whose story inspired blockbuster movie falls ill after 31 months in prison

A Turkish woman whose story inspired a blockbuster movie in 2015 has developed serious health problems during her 31 months in prison and solitary confinement, the...

Purge Museum visits Brussels, telling of tragedies in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown

Purge Museum, an initiative that collects and exhibits items belonging to individuals who survived Turkey’s massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, opened for a four-day run...

HRW: Turkey has arbitrarily jailed hundreds of lawyers since 2016 coup

Turkey has been arbitrarily jailing hundreds of lawyers and putting them on trial in the aftermath of the country’s failed military coup in July 2016, Human...

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