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Kılıçdaroğlu names EU membership as main goal, urges sharing of Turkey’s refugee burden

Leader of the main opposition party and presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said that if elected, his main goal will be making Turkey a...

Court blocks YouTube account broadcasting shocking allegations about Turkish gov’t

Turkish authorities have blocked access to the YouTube account of Muhammed Yakut, who has recently been making shocking allegations about the ruling Justice and...

Canadian senator demands accountability for Turkey’s human rights violations

Canadian Senator Leo Housakos has called on Canada and the international community to hold Turkish officials accountable for their alleged human rights violations targeting...

Turkish asylum seeker died from torture prior to pushback from Greece: forensics report

Turkey's Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has revealed the cause of death of a Turkish asylum seeker who crossed the Aegean Sea and was...

Journalist detained in western Turkey after scandalous allegations about failed coup

Turkish police detained a journalist in the western province of Çanakkale in the early hours of Wednesday after he made scandalous allegations about a...

CPJ calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting journalists covering Kurdish issues, release jailed members of the press

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to immediately release all imprisoned members of the press and stop prosecuting journalists who cover Kurdish...

Senior PKK figure says Erdoğan, who accuses opposition of PKK links, had the most talks with the group

Duran Kalkan, a senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has said although President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accuses the opposition of cooperating...

Female inmates in Ankara call on CPT to take action on suspicious deaths of prisoners

Sixty-eight women who are incarcerated in Ankara's Sincan Prison have in a letter asked the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture...

Turkey’s central bank asks lenders to limit dollar purchases

Turkey’s central bank has asked local lenders to limit the amount of dollar purchases they make in the interbank market to ease pressure on...

Kılıçdaroğlu promises to remove ban on popular online forum after elections

Users of Ekşi Sözlük, one of Turkey’s most popular social media websites, which has been banned since March, were encouraged by a campaign ad...

More than 64 million people to vote in Turkey’s elections: YSK

Turkey’s Supreme Board of Election (YSK) has announced that 64.1 million people will vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for May 14,...

Former imam says threatened, attacked for rebutting Erdoğan’s Gezi allegations

The former imam of an İstanbul mosque where protestors took refuge during the 2013 Gezi protests said he has been subjected to attacks and...

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