Turkish government bans Kurdish theater play in İstanbul
The governor of İstanbul’s Gaziosmanpaşa district yesterday prohibited the staging of a theater play in Kurdish just hours before the performance was scheduled to...
Turkish police briefly detain teen over ‘Kurdistan’ T-shirt, ill-treatment alleged
Police in southeastern Turkey briefly detained and allegedly beat a 15-year-old boy for wearing a T-shirt bearing the word “Kurdistan” on Tuesday, the Numedya...
22 killed as truck carrying migrants crashes in western Turkey
Twenty-two people, including children, were killed when a truck carrying migrants crashed in the western Turkish province of İzmir on Sunday, Turkey's state-run Anadolu...
ECtHR dismisses PKK leader Öcalan’s application claiming ill-treatment in prison
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday dismissed a complaint filed by Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...
Erdoğan confirms rendition of educator by Turkish intelligence from Kyrgyzstan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday acknowledged that Turkish-Kyrgyz educator Orhan İnandı, who went missing in Bishkek on the night of May 31,...
Twitter suspends account of closed-down pro-Kurdish newspaper
Social media company Twitter has suspended the account of Özgür Gündem, a pro-Kurdish daily that was closed down by a Turkish court in 2016...
Soaring inflation leads to dismissal of Turkish Statistics Institute’s deputy director
The deputy director of the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkState) was dismissed from his job on Wednesday, the same day the institute announced that Turkey’s inflation in...
Pop singer’s arrest slammed for displaying politicization of Turkish judiciary
The recent arrest of famous Turkish pop singer and songwriter Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu, part of an investigation into her due to remarks that allegedly...
Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 342 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 342 people on terrorism charges due to their alleged links to the faith-based...
HDP deputy calls for investigation into death of Kurdish inmate
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Sait Dede has called for an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Kurdish inmate in eastern...
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