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Kurdish student victim of threats, racist attacks for declining to vote for AKP in 2023

A Kurdish student in a religious imam-hatip high school in Turkey’s northwestern province of Kocaeli was the subject of threats and racist attacks after...

Amnesty calls for acquittal of Kavala, others ahead of hearing in new Gezi Park trial

Amnesty International on Friday called for the acquittal and immediate release of businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala and seven other defendants ahead of the...

Turkey ordered detention of 63 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 63 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Stockholm Center...

Turkey drops 8 spots on World Happiness Report, ranks 112th

Turkey has been ranked 112th in the World Happiness Report 2022, in which Nordic countries again secured the top spots, in a world beset...

EP rapporteur slams Turkish gov’t over use of terror accusations to stifle criticism

Turkey is using broad accusations of terrorism to silence critics, said Nacho Sánchez Amor, an MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)...

Former intel official held in solitary confinement for being ‘dangerous inmate’: daughter

The daughter of a former official at Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) who was last year handed down a lengthy prison sentence due to...

ECtHR rejects application on Turkish gov’t failure to find Yusuf Bilge Tunç

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected an application claiming that Turkish authorities failed to carry out an effective investigation into the...

Top court finds rights violation in dismissal of teacher over political party membership

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the dismissal of a teacher due to his membership in a political party violated his right to freedom...

Turkey’s top judicial body disbars 4 judges, 1 prosecutor over Gülen links

Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has disbarred four prosecutors and one judge due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, local...

Turkey denies citizenship to some Uyghur refugees: report

Turkey has rejected the citizenship applications of some Uyghur refugees due to risks to the country’s “national security” or “social order,” the Stockholm Center...

[ANALYSIS] 2 TSK aircraft stranded in Ukraine show failure of Turkey’s military intelligence

Fatih Yurtsever* Turkey dispatched two A400M military transport aircraft to Ukraine on Feb. 24 to evacuate Turkish nationals. The two aircraft have remained at Boryspil...

Ukraine asks Turkey to be among guarantors of any Russia deal

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has asked Turkey to be a guarantor of any future deal with Russia, along with the UN Security Council's...

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