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HRW calls on Turkish officials to investigate enforced disappearance, torture claims

Turkish authorities should urgently carry out an effective investigation into credible testimony from a man in pretrial detention that state agents forcibly disappeared him...

Turkish gov’t continued crackdown on dissidents in 2019: Amnesty annual report

Government's crackdown on dissidents in Turkey continued in 2019 despite the end of a two-year-long state of emergency in July 2018, Amnesty International (AI)...

Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll reaches 3,081, total number of cases climbs to 117,589

The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey has risen by 89 in the last 24 hours to 3,081, Health Ministry data...

Turkey’s coronavirus death toll nears 3,000, minister says

The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey rose by 92 in the last 24 hours to 2,992, Health Ministry data showed...

120 prisoners diagnosed with COVID-19, says Turkish justice minister

Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül announced on Tuesday that 120 prisoners from four penal institutions have been diagnosed with COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, the T24...

Turkish authorities arrest police officer who killed young Syrian refugee

A police officer, identified only by his initials F.K., has been arrested for shooting dead a 17-year-old Syrian refugee in the southern Turkish province of Adana,...

Erdoğan defends top religious authority’s anti-LGBT remarks: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday defended a top religious official who claimed homosexuality caused disease, corrupted people and was condemned in Islamic...

Turkey has detained 402 over ‘provocative’ coronavirus posts since March: report

Turkey has detained 402 people in the past 42 days for allegedly sharing “false and provocative” social media postings concerning the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Monday,...

Turkey’s coronavirus cases increase by 2,131, death toll at 2,900

Turkey’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased by 2,131 in the past 24 hours, and 95 more people have died, bringing the death toll to...

Neighborhood quarantined after man tests positive following release from prison

A neighborhood in the eastern Turkish province of Van has been put under quarantine after a man who was recently released from jail in the eastern...

Man dies after taking disinfectant against coronavirus in northwestern Turkey

 A 45-year-old man in the northwestern Turkish province of Tekirdağ has died after taking disinfectant and ethyl alcohol to protect himself against the novel coronavirus, according...

New COVID-19 infections lowest in 20 days, Turkey says

A total of 2,357 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, while 99 others have died from the disease over the past...

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