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Municipal police beating of street vendor in Ä°stanbul sparks outrage

Municipal police used excessive force on a street vendor selling fruit in İstanbul’s Kağıthane district, prompting outrage on social media, Turkish media reported on...

Court paves way for prosecution of police who used undue force during Boğaziçi protests

An appeals court has annulled an order from the İstanbul Governor’s Office that prohibited the prosecution of police officers for their alleged use of...

ErdoÄŸan says Biden has ‘bloody hands’ for backing Israel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Monday said US President Joe Biden had "bloody hands" because of his support for Israel in the raging...

Governor’s office denies use of force during arrest of expelled MP despite video

The Ankara Governor’s Office has denied the use of force against Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)...

UN rights office calls on Turkey to reverse decision on domestic violence treaty

The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday called on Turkey to reverse its decision to withdraw from an international treaty aimed at combating...

More than 800 Boğaziçi protestors subjected to ill-treatment by police: report

At least 800 people demonstrating against the appointment of a pro-government rector to İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University were subjected to ill-treatment by police officers...

Students detained in ongoing Boğaziçi protests reveal torture, threats by Turkish police

“We were detained around 4:30 p.m. and forced to wait in a bus until 5 a.m. The environment itself was torture. We were...

Turkish mob boss detained, deported from North Macedonia

Cevheri Güven The North Macedonian Ministry of Interior announced that Sedat Peker, a well-known Turkish mob boss, was detained on Dec. 18 and deported. According...

Violence prevails in Turkey as homicide convictions increase by 532 percent in a decade: report

Turkey saw a more than fivefold increase in the number of homicide convictions between 2009-2019, according to a report by an opposition deputy on...

Violence against Kurds in Turkey on the rise

Sixty-one-year-old Kurdish villager Şerali Dereli was shot dead by soldiers 50 meters from his house. In another incident, Ferit Kanlı and his wife Evin...

Investigation launched into pro-ErdoÄŸan figure threatening dissidents with violence

An investigation has been launched into a pro-government journalist who admitted to keeping a list of dissidents whom he claims he would kill in...

Elderly professor given jail sentence for signing peace declaration

Professor Gençay Gürsoy, 79, was given a 27-month jail sentence by a high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesdayon terrorism charges resulting from signing...

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