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Agricultural engineer goes missing in Rize

An agricultural engineer, Nuh Yiğit, has disappeared in the Black Sea province of Rize where he went earlier this week to look for a...

Interior Ministry: 24,545 Turks renounced their citizenship in 2016

The Turkish Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs has announced that a total of 24,545 Turks renounced their Turkish citizenship in...

UN reports on human rights violations and abuses in southeast Turkey

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday reported on allegations that the human rights violations and abuses...

UN: Approximately 300 journalists arrested, detained in Turkey in 2017

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday stated that it had received reports on the arrest and...

UN report exposes torture in Turkey

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday exposed details of torture cases in Turkey last year and...

UN to Turkey: End state of emergency, torture, ban on dismissed civil servants

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to promptly end an ongoing...

Journalist’s lawyer brother tortured for demanding forensic report about July 15 coup attempt

Journalist and well-known TV news presenter Nevşin Mengü has said her lawyer brother, Burak Mengü, who on Saturday was detained, beaten and left in...

ECtHR rules Turkey violated rights of journalists Altan and Alpay

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey has violated the liberty, security and freedom of expression of two journalists, Şahin...

1 military officer, 2 civilians killed in PKK attacks in southeastern Turkey

A special sergeant and two civilians were killed and four others were injured in separate attacks on Monday by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists...

24 employees of Işık Publications arrested over alleged Gülen links

Twenty-four out of 41 people who were detained in operations on March 7 have been arrested over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

Turkish version of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ faces censorship for terror propaganda

The Turkish adaptation of US TV series “Orange Is the New Black,” Avlu (The Yard), faces censorship over some of its scenes considered to...

New judges, prosecutors give Erdoğan standing ovation at palace ceremony

New judges and prosecutors who went to the Turkish presidential palace on Monday for balloting that will determine their work assignments stood up and...

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