Tuğçe

Tuğçe Aygün was born in 1990 in İzmir. She attended school in the Aegean coastal city and then enrolled in Muğla University in Menteşe from which she graduated with a degree in tourism management. She had just returned to İzmir after graduation when a car accident left her with paraplegia.

Anna Laudel Contemporary has brought together a selection of works from nine artists using different mediums including painting, sculpture, photograph, installation and collage, in its latest exhibition "Rooms & Walls."

Germany on April 20 deported to his native Serbia a man whose killing of a young Turkish woman sparked nationwide outrage.

Student Tuğçe Albayrak was hailed as a heroine after she intervened to protect two 14-year-old girls in an altercation in a fast-food restaurant in November 2014.

A Serbian national currently serving a jail term for fatally beating a 23-year-old Turkish woman who attempted to intervene in street harassment in Germany will be deported to Serbia once his prison term ends in November 2017, German daily Bild has reported. 

Sacrificing your own life to rescue others was the ultimate heroism of 2014, as seen in the death of a Turkish woman in Germany. Putting in an effort to save lives, risking one's self to inform others and standing up to protect a park were other actions lauded in Turkey this year. Here is our list: 1) Tuğçe Albayrak

Footage showing the moment when a young Turkish woman was punched while trying to help women being harassed in the German city of Offenbach has been revealed days after her death, Bild Online reported on Dec. 1.

The family of Tuğçe Albayrak, who was declared brain dead after being beaten for trying to rescue two German women from being harassed, has donated their daughter's organs.

Albayrak had had a donor card and her family donated her organs to achieve the 22-year-old girl's last wish after she was declared brain dead on Nov. 26, according to private broadcaster NTV.

Thousands in Germany are saying "danke" to a Turkish young woman  who was brutally attacked for trying to rescue two German women from being harassed, before her life support is turned off on her birthday.