183 members of Congress call on US government to address human rights abuses in...
A bipartisan group of 183 US lawmakers sent a letter on February 26 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the United States government to...
Veteran actor investigated for calling Erdoğan a ‘thief’ in 2016 tweet
A 76-year-old Turkish actor is facing charges of insulting the president for referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a “thief” in a tweet...
Turkey among top 3 countries with steepest decline in liberal democracy index: report
Turkey is among the countries that “autocratized” the most, together with Poland and Hungary, according to the “Democracy Report 2021,” which was published by...
20-year-old son of purge victims dies by suicide
Onur Selim Y., a 20-year-old university student living and studying in the northeastern Turkish province of Erzurum, has died by hanging himself from a...
Another Syrian refugee falls victim to apparent hate crime
Another Syrian refugee in Turkey has become a victim of a hate crime as an unidentified young man who was collecting trash was assaulted...
Academic in western Turkey shoots family members in murder-suicide
Yusuf Yılmaz, an academic working at a university in the western Turkish province of İzmir, shot his mother-in-law, his 4-year-old daughter and his wife,...
Opposition deputy takes deportation of Iranian asylum seekers to parliament
Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, a deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has submitted a parliamentary question about Turkish authorities' decision to deport four Iranian...
Main opposition seeks annulment of jailed MP’s expulsion from parliament at top court
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare null and void the stripping of a jailed lawyer who...
PACE calls on Turkish authorities to put an end to laws and practices that...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today reiterated its call on Turkish authorities “to put an end to laws and practices...
International students in Turkey report racism and discrimination
International students studying at Turkish universities say they often experience racism and discrimination, the Bianet news website reported.
Students coming from countries such as Pakistan...
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