70 students briefly detained for attending Pride March at Boğaziçi University
Turkish police on Friday broke up a Pride March at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul, detaining 70 of the students for participating in the event,...
PACE rapporteurs denied permission to visit Kavala in prison
A request by the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to visit businessman and...
82 women’s organizations publish statement in support of migrants in Turkey
A total of 82 women's organizations published a joint statement on Monday criticizing the rising anti-migrant sentiment in Turkey, saying they supported migrants and...
Members of anti-gov’t Furkan Foundation mistreated by police: reports
Members of the Furkan Foundation, an anti-government religious group, on Sunday were beaten by police officers as they were trying to make a public...
Two Turkish journalists say receiving threats due to their reporting
Two female journalists in Turkey have announced that they are receiving threats due to their reporting on an aide to a mafia boss and...
Turkey marks Youth Day amid widespread youth unemployment
Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day was celebrated on Thursday in Turkey, where 2.3 million young people are unemployed, corresponding to 41 percent of Turks...
Former teacher arrested on Gülen links diagnosed with brain tumor for third time
A former teacher who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement shortly after surgery to remove a tumor from his brain has...
Turkish authorities detain 11 female students in southeastern Turkey for links to Gülen movement
Turkish authorities on Friday morning detained 11 female university students in southeastern Turkey for alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Bold Medya news...
Turkish court faults Birgün daily for report on Erdoğan’s son-in-law
An İstanbul court has ruled in favor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technical officer of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle...
Anti-refugee mayor erects billboards telling Syrians in Arabic to leave Turkey
Billboards telling Syrian refugees in Arabic to return to their homeland since they’re no longer wanted in Turkey were put up in the northwestern...
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