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HRW calls on Turkey to suspend time limit on refugees’ travel outside quake zone

Turkey’s arbitrary decision to give refugees living in the provinces affected by the February 6, 2023 earthquakes only 60 days outside the region leaves many...

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog fines 3 more stations for airing content critical of gov’t

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has imposed fines on three television stations for broadcasting content critical of the Turkish government, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported.Radio...

Mesut Özil ends football career, may run for parliament from Erdoğan’s party

Turkish-German footballer Mesut Özil announced his retirement at the age of 34 on Wednesday, with Turkish media reports speculating about his possible nomination to...

Int’l academy apologizes to Jewish high school for Nazi salute at match

A group of students, teachers and administrators from an international academy in İstanbul paid a visit to a Jewish high school and apologized for...

Top court member, interior minister and AKP MP signed 2016 order to rendition Turkish radiologist

Newly obtained documents reveal that Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, then-General Director of Security and current lawmaker from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Selami...

Former finance minister wanted autonomy to work with Erdoğan: opposition politician

An opposition lawmaker has claimed that a former finance minister who refused to rejoin President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party and economy team had set...

Turkish prosecutors launch probe into Nevruz celebration in Diyarbakır

A prosecutor’s office in the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır has launched an investigation into incidents that occurred at a celebration held in the...

21 face detention in southern Turkey for financially helping inmates from leftist terror groups

A prosecutor’s office in southern Turkey has issued detention warrants for 21 people on grounds that they provided financial support to people who are...

HDP executive among 7 detained in western Turkey

Turkish police on Wednesday detained at least seven people including an official from the country’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the western province...

Kingmaker pro-Kurdish party gives tacit backing to Erdoğan’s rival in election

Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said Wednesday it would not field a presidential candidate in May elections, giving tacit support to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's secular...

Close to 200 participants detained during Nevruz celebration in Diyarbakır

Turkish police on Tuesday detained approximately 200 people who had gathered in the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır to celebrate the spring festival of...

ECtHR faults Turkey for canceling 3 academics’ passports after 2016 coup

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as...

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