Video shows Turkey’s Erdoğan pressuring party officials to ensure HDP remains under election threshold
Turkish President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged his party’s local officials to ensure that the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
HRF highlights Turkey’s human rights crisis in UN submission
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has raised alarm over Turkey's deteriorating human rights record in its recent submission to the United Nations Human Rights...
Erdoğan bans metal workers’ strikes in northwestern Turkey, sparking criticism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered a 60-day postponement of strikes at two steel factories in the northwestern province of Kocaeli, citing concerns...
Victims’ families outraged by Turkish gov’t failure to prevent killings in northern Iraq
The families of Turks who were killed in the Gara region of Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday as a result of an operation carried out...
German party urges Özil and Gündoğan be dropped from World Cup squad over Erdoğan...
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Tuesday called for Turkish-German soccer players Mesut Özil and İlkay Gündoğan, who had their photographs taken with...
Kurdish family assaulted for playing Kurdish music at wedding
A Kurdish family was assaulted by a Turkish mob after playing Kurdish music at a wedding in Çanakkale’s Çan district in Turkey on Saturday,...
Turkey’s top court orders gov’t to pay damages to complainant in torture case, reinvestigate...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of an applicant who claimed he had faced torture and inhuman treatment in prison in 2018 and...
Targeted by Erdoğan, Turkey’s LGBT community face ‘tsunami of hate’
Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East have found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighborhood of İstanbul.
Today,...
New ‘Panama Papers’ reveals pro-gov’t Turkish businessman’s offshore deal
Newly released documents from the Panamanian-based Mossack Fonseca & Co, the firm that was at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal in 2016,...
Report highlights rising economic inequality and education challenges in Turkey
A new report issued by the Turkish Education Reform Initiative (ERG) warns of deepening inequalities in education as economic pressures mount.
The 2024 Education Monitoring...
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