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US religious freedom commission recommends Turkey for Special Watch List over severe violations

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended that Turkey be placed on the State Department’s Special Watch List for engaging in...

Top court judge found shot in head in hotel room in SE Turkey

A judge serving on Turkey's top administrative court has been found with a gunshot wound to the head in his hotel room in southeastern...

Turkey’s new prison reform law sparks outcry over exclusion of political prisoners

As a new prison reform bill passed into law last week has granted early parole to many inmates in Turkey, the families of political...

Turkey once again ranked among 10 worst countries for working people: ITUC

A yearly report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on labor rights has once again ranked Turkey as one of the 10 worst countries...

Thousands mourn Turkish mayor at emotional funeral following fatal electrical shock

Manisa Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek was laid to rest Tuesday in what local officials described as one of the largest funerals in the city’s history,...

Turkey’s two-tiered tourism pricing leaves locals in the cold

Turkish hotels are charging Turks up to three times more than German tourists for the same all-inclusive resort vacations, in a dual pricing system...

Turkish gov’t denies journalist’s claim Erdoğan is mentally unfit

A Turkish journalist’s claim that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is “mentally disconnected” and no longer in control of key state affairs has drawn a...

[UPDATE] Turkish mayor dies after electric shock at home pool

Manisa Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek died Monday at the age of 48, three days after suffering a severe electrical shock while inspecting a malfunction in...

European rights court faults Turkey for withholding inmate’s letter to fiancée

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Turkish prison authorities violated the rights of Emrah Uygun, who was sentenced to more than six...

Dismissed military officer injured in factory explosion dies, exposing human cost of post-coup purge

A former Turkish military officer who was dismissed by emergency decree in the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt has died of injuries sustained...

Opposition MP questions holiday traffic fines, claims revenue motive

A lawmaker from the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party has brought recent traffic enforcement practices to parliament, accusing Turkish authorities of using speed checks...

No peace possible in Turkey without Alevi involvement, pro-Kurdish party co-chair says

Tülay Hatimoğulları, co-chair of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), declared at the 13th British Alevi Festival in London that any...

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