Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi

The Labor and Social Security Ministry has noted that 133,637 mobbing complaints were filed through the Working Life Communication Center hotline between March 2011 and November 2023, a striking statistic that reveals a pressing issue in Türkiye.

The Justice Ministry recently announced two different figures for the number of prisoners in Turkish jails as of June 15, daily Cumhuriyet reported on Sept. 19. 

The ministry's first response was based on National Judiciary Informatics System (UYAP) data, after main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Murat Emir put in a request on Aug. 7. 

The Turkish Justice Ministry accepted on May 24 a jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentarian's request to be reunited with her 3-year-old daughter in prison.

HDP Muş lawmaker Burcu Çelik Özkan was arrested on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organization" on April 19 in the eastern province of Muş.

A jailed Kurdish-issue focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) member has applied to the Justice Ministry to unite with her three-year-old daughter in prison, Doğan News Agency reported on May 24.

HDP Muş lawmaker Burcu Çelik Özkan was arrested on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organization" on April 19 in the eastern province of Muş.

Politicians and social media users have lambasted an Istanbul court after it ordered the release of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Kadir Topbaş's son-in-law Ömer Faruk Kavurmacı, who was previously detained in a probe into the Gülenist movement due to health problems.

There were 498 arrested and convicted Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in Turkish prisons as of February, the Justice Ministry has stated.

A total of 20 women were killed while under temporary state protection between 2015 and 2017, the Turkish Interior Ministry has announced. 

The women, who were taken under protection due to serious threats to their lives from men, were killed before they could notify police due to "events that unfolded suddenly."