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Court releases all defendants jailed over alleged sexual abuse of interns in Turkish Parliament

A court in Ankara on Thursday ordered the release of four jailed defendants standing trial over allegations that high school interns were sexually abused...

Turkish police detain 86 in match-fixing, illegal betting operation

Turkish police have detained 86 suspects in simultaneous operations across 24 provinces as part of an İstanbul-based investigation into alleged match-fixing, illegal betting and...

Turkish court gives three men life sentences over 2013 Reyhanlı bombings

A Turkish court on Friday sentenced three men to 53 aggravated life and 3,921 years in prison each on various charges over the 2013...

Turkey opens antitrust investigation into Meta over WhatsApp AI access

Turkey’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Meta Platforms over whether the company used WhatsApp to give its own artificial intelligence service an...

Turkey’s prison population exceeds capacity by over 116,000

Turkey’s prison population reached 421,583 as of June 1, more than 116,000 above the country’s official prison capacity, according to data from the Ministry...

Lawmaker asks why Turkish Parliament withheld report on 2016 coup attempt

A lawmaker from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party has asked Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş to explain why a parliamentary report on a failed coup in...

Turkey’s annual inflation edged up to 32.6 percent in May

Turkey’s annual inflation rate rose slightly in May to 32.6 percent from 32.4 percent in April, official figures showed Friday. Consumer prices increased 1.7 percent...

US congressional commission spotlights Turkey’s authoritarian rule and rights abuses

Turkey is moving toward full authoritarian rule as the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan intensifies its crackdown on political opposition, independent media, civil...

ECtHR asks Turkey about alleged rights violations in post-coup dismissals

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated to the Turkish government questions regarding applications alleging rights violations in the dismissal of a group of...

Rights groups say impunity remains entrenched in Turkey as civil society faces growing pressure

A coalition of Turkish and European rights groups has warned that impunity for human rights violations remains deeply entrenched in Turkey, while civil society...

Turkey’s broadly defined unemployment remained above 30 pct in April

Turkey’s broadly defined unemployment rate remained above 30 percent in April, official data showed, indicating continued strain in the labor market despite only a...

Press groups urge Turkey to release journalist before court hearing

The International Press Institute, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the European Federation of Journalists and other press freedom and human rights groups have called...

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