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Opposition MP requests inquiry into attacks on journalists, politicians in Turkey under AKP rule

A lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has requested the opening of a parliamentary inquiry into a series of physical assaults...

Turkish opposition leader faces sexist attacks amid rising popularity

Cevheri Güven Meral Akşener, leader of the Good (İyi) Party, has been facing sexist insults in parallel to her rising popularity as evidenced by election...

Turkish politics braces for the week of March 18-24

Cevheri Güven The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), will hold party conventions on March 24 and...

Mother says justice still elusive on 7th anniversary of Berkin Elvan’s death

The mother of Berkin Elvan, a teen who was struck in the head with a gas canister fired by a police officer during the...

Chinese pressure upends Uighur refuge in Turkey

After 20 years in a Chinese prison, Abdullah Abdulrahman joined 50,000 other Uighurs and fled to Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had once...

13 participants in Women’s Day’s march in İstanbul detained on Erdoğan insult charges

Turkish police have detained 13 women including a minor who took part in a march to mark International Women’s Day on March 8 in...

Presidential system has led to democratic and economic backsliding in Turkey: report

A report by Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has revealed that Turkey’s presidential system, which has concentrated power in the person of...

Senate of German university urges Turkey to restore academic freedom at Boğaziçi

The senate of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, with which Boğaziçi University has been linked for years through the ERASMUS student exchange...

Kurdish-German politician receives death threats from Turkish far-right groups

Sevim Dağdelen, a Kurdish-German politician from the German Left Party, said she has been receiving death threats from Turkish ultranationalist groups, the Stockholm Center...

Kurdish not among 6 languages supported by app to be used against domestic violence

Kurdish will not be among the six languages and that will be supported by KADES, a smartphone app designed by the Turkish National Police...

CoE calls on Turkey to refrain from further implementing new terrorism financing law

In a letter addressed to Turkey’s interior and justice ministers made public on Wednesday, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called...

CPJ calls on Turkish gov’t to investigate mob assault on journalist Gültekin

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Turkish government to investigate a mob assault on Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin, a columnist for the...

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