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Syria’s Kurds call for end to all military operations in the country

Syria's Kurds, who run a semi-autonomous administration in the northeast, called Monday for an end to all fighting in the country and extended a...

Turkish rescuers search infamous jail in Syria

A team of Turkish rescuers began an in-depth search of Syria's infamous Saydnaya prison on Monday, a spokesman for Turkey's AFAD disaster management agency...

Turkey uses post-9/11 counterterrorism model to target critics in exile: report

Turkey has used strategies similar to post-9/11 US counterterrorism practices to crack down on critics in exile, particularly members of the Gülen movement, according...

7,600 Syrians returned via Turkish border in 5 days after Assad fall: minister

More than 7,600 Syrian migrants crossed the Turkish border to return home in the five days after the fall of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad,...

Rights advocates, victims shed light on Turkey’s ongoing human rights crisis in virtual panels

Virtual panels organized by Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) on December 10 drew the world's attention to the human rights crisis in Turkey, with...

Turkey detains 14 more over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police detained 14 individuals on Tuesday over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated house raids in three...

Turkish authorities intensify crackdown on pro-Kurdish opposition in 2024: report

Turkish authorities detained at least 3,948 people and arrested 632 in 2024 as part of an intensified crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and...

Activists arrested for protesting Erdoğan’s Israel trade face up to 3 years in prison

Nine pro-Palestinian activists, recently held in pretrial detention for several days for protesting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over Turkey’s alleged ongoing trade with Israel,...

Pro-Kurdish party provincial chair among 6 detained

Turkish police have detained Reşat Aşan, the Mersin provincial chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), along with five others,...

Defendant in ‘High School Girls Case’ says she was strip-searched while in custody

A university student said she was subjected to a strip-search while in custody, according to the court records for the first hearing of what is known...

ECtHR rejects application from Turkish tank commander involved in 2016 coup

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday rejected all complaints brought by a Turkish tank commander involved in a coup attempt in...

Turkish spy chief Kalın visits Damascus, prays at Umayyad Mosque

Turkish intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın traveled to Damascus on Thursday, just days after an Islamist-led rebel push ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and prayed...

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