Turkey and the European Union have wrapped up a programme on harmonizing prison standards. One thousand days’ training was given to prisoner officers in Turkey at a cost of 1.9 million euros ($2.1 ...

Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, or HDP, listen to party co-leader Pervin Buldan's speech during the Newroz celebrations marking the start of spring in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish journalist Fatih Altayli has been imprisoned, but his reporting remains defiantly alive. From behind bars, the veteran journalist delivers news and sharp political ...

ISTANBUL(AP) — A court in southern Turkey sentenced eight people on Monday to prison terms over a 2024 cable car accident in the coastal resort of Antalya that killed one passenger and injured seven.

"Turkey's political future is germinating in the cells of this prison," said Cemil Tugay, the mayor of Izmir, a city in western Turkey, after visiting the deposed mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, ...

Council of Europe statistics show that Turkey has the largest prison population in Europe apart from Russia, with more than 300,000 inmates - as the Ankara government continues to build more jails to ...

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