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Bar association executives face new investigation over commemoration of Armenian genocide victims

Diyarbakır prosecutors have launched an investigation into 11 executives of the Diyarbakır Bar Association on accusations of “denigrating the Turkish nation and state,” over...

IHD calls for improved workplace safety in aftermath of tragic fire

In the aftermath of a tragic fire at a nightclub in İstanbul on Tuesday in which 29 workers died, the Human Rights Association (IHD)...

Man dies in custody after alleged police brutality

Serhat Kahyaoğlu, a man who on the night of Sunday’s local elections was detained in İstanbul for celebrating by firing a gun into the...

AKP accused of stealing from municipalities lost to opposition, deleting files to hide corruption

Allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and deliberate attempts to destroy evidence of wrongdoing are being raised in municipalities that have shifted from...

340 detained across Turkey for protesting overturning of Kurdish mayor’s election victory

Turkish police have detained 340 people over protests that erupted across Turkey in response to a local electoral authority’s decision to annul the victory...

Erdoğan’s son-in-law Bayraktar joins world’s richest on Forbes billionaire list

Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of Turkish defense contractor Baykar and the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has made it on to Forbes list...

Top election authority overturns annulment of pro-Kurdish party candidate’s election victory

Turkey’s  Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Wednesday approved an appeal made by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) against a decision...

Turkey’s top court annuls interior minister’s broad powers over civil society organizations

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has cancelled certain provisions of a 2020 law that granted the authority to the interior minister to suspend board members and...

Turkey’s inflation climbs to 68.5 percent in March: official data

Price growth in inflation-plagued Turkey gained pace in March, rising to 68.5 percent year-on-year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said on Wednesday. The increase followed...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party challenges overturning of candidate’s election victory

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party said Wednesday it was contesting a ruling that annulled the election of its mayoral candidate in the eastern province of Van...

Outrage erupts over election board’s denial of pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate’s win

The provincial election authority’s move to reverse the victory a pro-Kurdish candidate who won the mayor's race in Turkey’s eastern Van province, opening the...

Teacher’s retrial after landmark ECtHR judgment starts under tight security measures

The retrial of Yüksel Yalçınkaya, a teacher whose conviction on terrorism charges was found by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to have...

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