SAR report reveals how attacks by authorities have crippled Turkey’s higher education

A report by a New York-based initiative for academic freedom, Scholars at Risk (SAR), shows how deliberate attacks by Turkish authorities on university communities...

Turkish police adopt ISIS-like torture tactics, see women and girls as sex slaves: report

The terrible accounts of the torture of people in police custody at an unofficial detention site in Turkey, related by multiple victims in court...

Editor-in-chief of pro-Erdoğan Yeni Akit daily targets widow of slain journalist Hrant Dink

Ali İhsan Karahasanoğlu, editor-in-chief of the pro-government radical Islamist Yeni Akit newspaper, targeted Rakel Dink, the widow of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, in...

Opposition leader faces 2nd verbal attack after Erdoğan’s praise for first one

Turkey’s nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener came under verbal attack as she was addressing locals in Sivas province, the second attack...

Report reveals widespread discrimination of refugees in Turkey’s quake zone

Following massive earthquakes in southern Turkey last month, refugees in the quake zone – most of them Syrian – have been subjected to “multi-layered discrimination,”...

New mother detained over alleged Gülen links despite doctor’s objection in Turkey

Hatice Avan, who gave birth to a baby in the western Turkish province of Denizli on Thursday, was detained on Friday, despite her doctor’s...

Pro-gov’t Turkish satire magazine deletes provocative cartoon upon public outcry

Pro-government Turkish satirical magazine Misvak has removed a cartoon depicting Turkish autocratic  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ultranationalist ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)...

Prestigious Foreign Affairs journal covers Turkish gov’t’s witch hunt on global sphere

Turkish government has used its international clout to pursue exiles, dissidents, and regular citizens abroad and have Turkish citizens arrested in or deported from...

Turkey’s Erdoğan slams Trump administration over its Jerusalem move

Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday slammed the administration of US President Donald Trump and said its decision to move the US...

Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency harasses exiled journalist Vatandaş

Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) has harassed yet another Turkish journalist who has been forced to live abroad, contributing to the intensified campaign of...

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