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MP reports poor prison conditions after visiting detained LGBTI+ activists
The detained LGBTI+s reported sleeping on the floor and facing ill-treatment, said Özgül Saki.
25 September 2026
Nalin Öztekin
reports
How was a 15-year-old able to bring a rifle to school?
MP Gülizar Biçer Karaca highlighted concerns over school security, children’s access to firearms and existing safety measures following her review of the Turgutlu shooting that injured 11 students.
25 September 2026
Nalin Öztekin
Vecih Cuzdan
reports
State audit flags irregularities at PPP hospitals, MP criticizes inaction
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 Yıldırım Kara said, “Findings are made, but no action is taken.”
25 September 2026
Vecih Cuzdan
Erzurum bans feeding stray animals
Police and gendarmerie will condunct inspections and will notify municipalities "immediately" when stray animals are found.
25 September 2026
Turkey blocks access to dozens of news reports, social media accounts amid investment fund probe
Numerous economists' accounts and news articles have been affected by the restrictions.
25 September 2026
Turkey blocks X account of rights advocate monitoring online censorship
“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.
24 September 2026
AKP takes control of another İstanbul district after opposition members change sides
Seven of the nine eligible voters were members of the CHP. Yet, the ruling party won the election for acting mayor.
24 September 2026
Kurdish writer Suzan Samancı given travel ban after returning to Turkey 10 years later
Samancı, a member of PEN Writers Association, has mainly lives in Switzerland after she left Diyarbakır in 2008.
24 September 2026
Magnitude 5.4 earthquake in southeastern Turkey
The tremor was also felt in surrounding provinces.
24 September 2026
Ankara mayor resigns from CHP, citing disruption of opposition unity
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. He was later followed by six district mayors in Ankara, who also declared thay they will remain independent.
23 September 2026
Deniz Ergün
reports
Families of LGBTI+s reject ‘family safety’ framing of crackdown on queer community
"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."
22 September 2026
Deniz Ergün
Turkey’s major airlines suspend flights to Iran after US sanctions move
Turkish Airlines and AJet show no flights to Iran in their booking systems through Mar 2027.
22 September 2026
People living with HIV held in isolation after LGBTI+ arrests, group says
Pozitif Alan criticized the practice, noting that HIV is not transmitted through everyday contact.
22 September 2026
Eleven students wounded after shooting near high school in Manisa
Three of the wounded students are reportedly in critical condition. A high school student who was believed to have carried out the shooting has been taken into custody.
22 September 2026
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Turkey’s investment fund crisis in 10 questions: Phantom returns and a market meltdown
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 their money back?
21 September 2026
Two PKK members buried roadside in İstanbul identified 27 years later
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 informed.
21 September 2026
Turkish Medical Association condemns targeting of health groups in anti-LGBTI+ operations
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 Safe" operations.
21 September 2026
Opposition concerned over İstanbul takeover as council member resigns
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.
18 September 2026
Detained queer rights advocate sends message from prison: ‘This is a badge of honor’
"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.
18 September 2026
Remains of interior minister during İstanbul pogrom to be moved to memorial cemetery
The transfer will be carried out because Gedik was the interior minister of the government that was ousted in the 1960 coup.
18 September 2026
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İrfan Kovankaya
reports
How Turkey’s vague obscenity law is becoming a tool to criminalize LGBTI+ visibility
The obscenity law historically applied to pornographic content. Recently, judicial authorities have accused almost anything related to the LGBTI+ community of being obscene, ranging from verbal statements and photos to song lyrics.
18 September 2026
Irfan Kovankaya
Turkey blocks over 400 social media accounts belonging to journalists, rights groups
The wave of censorship began with LGBTI+ groups on Sep 12.
17 September 2026
Over 80 formally arrested in anti-LGBTI+ crackdown as ministry orders action over ‘desexualization’
The ministry ordered prosecutors to take action against “activities encouraging children and young people toward desexualization.”
17 September 2026
Forty-one food supplier executives detained in price manipulation probe
Investigators found indications that some major suppliers used their market position to understate the amount of produce available while overstating their costs.
16 September 2026
Ferhat Yaşar
reports
Anti-LGBTI+ crackdown: Detention extended for 109 protesters amid ill-treatment allegations
During detention procedures, police attempted to remove detainees' allegations of torture from their statements, a lawyer said.
16 September 2026
Ferhat Yaşar
Murat İnceoğlu
reports
Turkish intelligence targets software firm over alleged misuse of public employees’ data
The company, which got multiple public contracts over the years, reportedly provided access to previously leaked citizenship data.
16 September 2026
Murat İnceoğlu
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Dozens detained outside İstanbul Courthouse while protesting LGBTI+ arrests
Two reporters were among the detained as a crowd protested the Sep 13 anti-LGBTI+ raids.
15 September 2026
Journalist Tuğçe Yılmaz wins Musa Anter award for report on discrimination against trans teacher
The jury said the article was selected because it showed “how a systematic process of pressure against LGBTI+s operates and how their living spaces are being restricted.”
15 September 2026
Journalist Tuğba Tekerek detained over interview with Georgian LGBTI+ activist
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.
15 September 2026
Hikmet Adal
reports
Journalists Canan Coşkun, Kazım Kızıl face up to 14 years in prison over investigation into suspicious child death
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.
15 September 2026
Hikmet Adal
Lawyer says private messages cited as 'obscenity' evidence against detained LGBTI+s
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.
15 September 2026
Journalist Pınar Gayıp released after more than seven months in prison
"The indictment contains statements by confessors, but all they have reported is my journalism," Gayıp told the court during the hearing.
14 September 2026
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