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Women stage protest against attempt to close anti-femicide group in Turkey

Several hundred women protested outside an İstanbul court on Wednesday ahead of a hearing to close a well-known anti-femicide campaign group, Agence France-Presse reported. Waving...

Dismissed academic gets 10 years in prison on terrorism charges

A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of 10 years to an academic who had been dismissed from her job in the...

Police intervene against pro-Kurdish party executives, MPs over protest outside HDP headquarters

Lawmakers and executives from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been subjected to violence and threats by police officers in front of party...

Prominent figures hold protest march in Berlin against Gezi trial convictions

Prominent journalists, human rights activists and artists came together in the German capital of Berlin on Wednesday to hold a march in protest of...

Top prosecutor demands reversal of Turkey’s Istanbul Convention withdrawal

Aytaç Kurt, the chief public prosecutor of Turkey's highest administrative court, the Council of State, has demanded the cancellation of a presidential decree that...

Power turned back on at opposition leader’s apartment after he ends protest

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), and his family have electricity in their Ankara apartment again after the end...

Turkey’s opposition leader to ‘sit in the dark’ for a week in act of solidarity

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said on Thursday that he will "sit in the dark" for a...

Iraq summons Turkish envoy in protest of its military offensive

Iraq on Tuesday summoned Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad in protest at a new Turkish offensive targeting outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the...

Hundreds rally against threat to close Turkish women’s rights group

Hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in several Turkish cities including İstanbul and Ankara against a move to close one of the country's most...

Police violence against members of anti-gov’t religious group sparks outrage

Turkish police in the southern province of Adana sparked outrage when they employed batons, plastic bullets and pepper spray in what many said was...

‘Make their voices heard’: Turkish women fight femicide

A group of female activists prepare banners ahead of a march in İstanbul: "Keep the feminist rebellion going", reads one, "We don't have to...

Mother of former military cadet stages protest in Ankara, demanding justice for imprisoned son

Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who is serving a life sentence for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey...

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