A nurse braided her hair on video in solidarity with a killed woman. Turkey has dismissed her from the civil service for life.
İkra Avcı worked as a nurse at a hospital in Kocaeli. After an armed group in north-east Syria cut off the braid of a woman fighter who had been killed and circulated the footage, women across Turkey and elsewhere posted videos and photographs of themselves braiding their hair in response. Politicians, journalists, artists and health […]
Selçuk Mızraklı served seven years for four months as Diyarbakır’s elected mayor. He was released having completed the sentence.
Dutch Court Orders Refugee Status for Turkish Gülenist Couple, Rejecting Claim That Acquittal Ends Risk of Persecution
A 21-year-old with 22 screws in her spine is in an İzmir prison. Her alleged offence: visiting family in Bosnia.
Turkey says it has blocked 2,034 social media accounts, including journalists and activists
Turkey ordered 31 lawyers detained and searched 39 law offices. The Justice Minister pronounced on their “guilt” the same day.
Did Davutoğlu insult President Erdoğan? Turkey has opened an insult investigation into its own former prime minister over a speech he gave five years ago.
Turkey has Europe’s highest imprisonment rate. Its prisons now hold 130,000 more people than they were built for.
Turkey now ranks below Syria for press freedom. RSF places it 163rd of 180 — its lowest position ever.
A boy of 18, days from starting university, took his own life. He had spent his childhood in a family dismantled by emergency decree.
