Union demands investigation into how those files got into the drive in question.

The festival included costume competitions featuring anime, manga and video game characters, as well as sushi-eating contests.

Alex Crawford became the first foreign journalist affected by a recent wave of online censorship targeting dozens of accounts belonging to journalists and LGBTI+ rights groups on “obscenity” grounds.

An invisible workforce is training the engines behind consumer tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, as well as enterprise AI. It includes corporate professionals navigating layoffs, underemployed writers an...

Kuçuradi leaves a lasting legacy as a leading philosopher of human rights and ethics, whose work shaped generations of students and influenced philosophical thought in Turkey and beyond.

Police allegedly obtained the detained individuals' phone passwords without a court order and then added messages and photos in the phones to the investigation file as evidence.

Kaos GL board member and trans rights defender Janset Kalan answered bianet’s questions from prison.

Six journalists' X accounts have been banned by court orders.

The ban comes amid an ongoing wave of censorship that saw hundreds of social media accounts blocked in recent weeks.

Prosecutors said a scene shows a large group of people sitting or lying on the ground in an open area as a man "playing the groom” appears alongside another man with blond hair wearing a yellow suit.

The operations targeting LGBTI+ advocacy and journalism resulted in 82 people being placed in pretrial detention and hundreds of social media accounts and websites being blocked.

The blocked accounts include those of economists and academics.

Ergin is under investigation for "spreading disinformation" over a social media post where he described a doctor as forensic medicine personnel.

"The LGBTI+ movement is probably one of the movements that best knows, understands and appreciates the importance of children’s rights, because of the violence, fear and loneliness we ourselves experi...

Nedime Erdoğan answered bianet's questions from prison: "LGBTI+s were born to a mother and a father, and they are in every vein of the society."

Göktaş denied having insulted Erdoğan by calling him a "shy dictator," saying, "Someone else might have called him a democract and made people laugh more than I did."

Sayan-Kaya said he asked Erdoğan to relieve her of her duties without addressing the allegations.

The Court of Accounts identified a wide range of problems at city hospitals, including investment and operating periods, VAT exemptions, commercial areas and medical equipment. Opposition MP Nermin Yı...

Police and gendarmeria will condunct inspections and will notify municipalities "immediately" when stray animals are found.

Numerous economists' accounts and news articles have been affected by the restrictions.

“I have become the subject of the issue I constantly raise,. As a lawyer and a law professor, I do not know under which decision and on what grounds my account was blocked," said Yaman Akdeniz.

Seven of the nine eligible voters were members of the CHP. Yet, the ruling party won the election for acting mayor.

Samancı, a member of PEN Writers Association, has mainly lives in Switzerland after she left Diyarbakır in 2008.

"They say, 'My family is safe,' but we are not safe. Aren't we families, too? They act as if our children don't have families."

As a nationwide judicial crackdown on municipalities and a party split leave Turkey’s main opposition movement in disarray, Mansur Yavaş has decided to continue serving as an independent.

Returns exceeding 4,000%, artificial price movements in low-float stocks, and unfulfilled withdrawal requests... How did the crisis start, how did the system work, and will investors be able to get th...

The bodies of the two women militants were exhumed in 2017 from a cemetery containing the remains of PKK members and transferred to a cemetery for unclaimed bodies without their families being informe...

Social media accounts of the Psychiatric Association of Turkey and the Sexual Education, Treatment and Research Association were among 400 accounts and web sites blocked as part of the "My Family Is ...

The opposition still has a significant advantage in the city council but the officials allege that the ruling party will seek to alter the majority through arrests and defections.

"I know this won’t be the first or the last price I pay for this struggle. Like the others, I bear this price as a badge of honor," said Selin Berghan.

Twenty years ago, the Kaos GL magazine was seized on the grounds of “obscenity” and “public morality.” Ten years ago, the ECtHR ruled that Turkey had violated Kaos GL’s freedom of expression. Today, t...

The obscenity law historically applied to pornographic content. Recently, judicial authorities have accused almost anything related to LGBTI+s of being obscene, ranging from verbal statements and phot...

The ministry ordered prosecutors to take action against “activities encouraging children and young people toward desexualization.”

During detention procedures, police attempted to remove detainees' allegations of torture from their statements, a lawyer said.

The company, which got multiple public contracts over the years, reportedly provided access to previously leaked citizenship data.

Two reporters were among the detained as a crowd protested the Sep 13 anti-LGBTI+ raids.

Tekerek's interview was published by Kaos GL, executives of which were taken into custody on "obscenity" charges during the sweeping anti-LGBTI+ raids on Sep 13.

The journalists and the deceased girl's father will stand trial over an interview they made with an eyewitness. All three are accused of depriving the witness of their liberty.

Police allegedly obtained the detained individuals' phone passwords without a court order and then added messages and photos in the phones to the investigation file as evidence.

Journalist and LGBTI+ activist Yıldız Tar reflected on the recent crackdown on the queer community.

The ministry has been restricting access to hormone therapy through directives and de facto practices.

An investigation found that the suspects, including minors, ad posted about preparations for armed attacks targeting three schools in three provinces.

The influence operation reportedly involved creating fake accounts to support politicians, fabricating news and smearing rivals.

Tokyaz's body was found by a roadside last year. Five other defendants received sentences for offenses related to evidence spoliation.

Both the ECtHR and Turkey's Constitutional Court previously gave rulings in favor of Süsem. His next hearng will be held on Oct 6.

Police detained over 8,000 people throughout the year as part of "online patrol" activities that were deemed unlawful by the Constitutional Court.

“I do not accept that criminal meanings are systematically attributed to my works based on my identity," said the singer, who is facing "obscenity" allegations for the second time over the past year…

The country moved above the OECD average for the first time in science and reading. However, the gap between the most and the least advantegous sections remain well over OECD average.