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Jailed Kurdish leader denounces killing of PKK hostages, blames gov’t for botched rescue attempt

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has denounced the killing of 13 Turkish nationals held hostage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blaming the...

Erdoğan’s harsh remarks targeting opposition leader censored by own team

Turkey's Presidential Communications Directorate has on its official website censored recent remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that directly targeted main opposition Republican People’s...

Happiness level among Turkish people declined in 2020: survey

The number of people over the age of 18 who describe themselves as happy declined in Turkey in 2020, dropping to 48.2 percent of...

Erdoğan files TL 500,000 lawsuit against opposition leader over Gara remarks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against the head of the country’s main opposition party for TL 500,000 ($71,000) in damages...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for police violence against journalist in 2015 protest

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the government to pay TL 15,000 ($2,160) in damages to journalist Beyza Kural, who was subjected to ill-treatment by...

Writer criticizes Google Ads for rejecting advertisements in Kurdish

Writer Rêzan Tovjîn has said the Turkey team of Google Ads is responsible for rejecting a request to advertise a book titled “Şerm” (Shame),...

Turkey keeps main interest rate steady at 17 percent

Turkey's central bank on Thursday kept its main interest rate unchanged at 17 percent for the second month in a row to support a...

71-year-old jailed author Altan fails to get access to COVID-19 vaccine

Prominent Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan, 71, who has been behind bars for some five years, has failed to get a response to...

One in every four journalists in Turkey suffered physical violence in 2020: report

One out of every four journalists was subjected to physical violence and half of them received threats in 2020, a report recently released by...

Women’s group protesting Erdoğan’s all-female university detained in Ankara

A group of women was detained on Tuesday in Ankara after they attempted to stage a demonstration against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s initiative for...

Turkish authorities must end vindictive prosecutions of former staffers of Özgür Gündem: CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked Turkish authorities to drop all charges against former staffers of Özgür Gündem, a now-defunct newspaper that had...

IHD, Saturday Mothers call for effective investigation into disappearance of former bureaucrat

The Human Rights Association (İHD) asked Turkish authorities to urgently find Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former bureaucrat who has been missing since December 29,...

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