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Widespread violations of basic human rights in Turkish prisons have been documented in a new report released on Friday by ...

A controversial bill that would allow energy and mining projects in protected areas has been postponed by the Turkish parliament ...

Environmental and civil society organisations in several cities across Turkey have staged coordinated protests over the past week in response ...

Dismissed Kurdish mayors in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern city of Van (Wan) urged a visiting delegation from the Council of Europe ...

Residents of more than 20 villages in the Gürpınar (Payîzava) district in the Kurdish-majority province of Van (Wan) in south-east ...

A new political era in Turkey must be built on local democracy, equality and a legally grounded social contract*, pro-Kurdish ...

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party has called for urgent reforms in parliament to end the practice of appointing ...

Large-scale rallies were held across Kurdish-majority provinces in Turkey and parts of northern Syria and Iraq on Thursday to mark ...

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party will meet Turkey’s justice minister Yılmaz Tunç on 18 ...