A Turkish court has convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor of insulting and threatening a public official ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...

Special Rapporteurs enjoy full diplomatic immunity under international law. Fellow experts suggest US sanctions could be the ...

Congress passed the legislation late Wednesday to provide amnesty for military members and civilians prosecuted for serious human rights abuses during the country’s armed conflict between 1980 and ...

Greece has suspended the processing of asylum applications from North Africa for three months after a surge in migrant numbers. Arrivals by boat from the region will be arrested and detained, ...

Fireworks blast in California, Gaza aid scandal, Russia backs Taliban—Thursday evening's headlines span chaos from Esparto to ...

Firefighters in western Turkey have discovered the body of an elderly man after extinguishing a wildfire near a village. Officials say the 81-year-old died from smoke inhalation, marking the first ...

Dozens of people have been detained in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, and police blocked key parts of the city as the ...

The arrest operation is the fifth after Turkey jailed Istanbul's mayor and leading opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu.

Amnesty International said it is also calling on all countries not to forcibly return Afghans not only to Afghanistan, but also to Turkey or Iran, where Afghans would be at risk of deportation to ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey unlawfully detained the head of the country's of Amnesty International branch for 14 months, the European Court of Human Rights said in a judgement Tuesday.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of Amnesty International’s then-branch chairman when it imprisoned him for more than 14 months. Turkey had ...