HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question about the neglect of Armenian heritage sites
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Garo Paylan has submitted a parliamentary question addressed to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism asking why Armenian churches...
At least 122 people killed in traffic accidents across Turkey during Eid al-Adha holiday
At least 122 people were killed in traffic accidents across Turkey during the extended 10-day long public holiday on the occasion of Aid al-Adha,...
Zabit Kişi, Turkish citizen abducted in Kazakhstan, jailed in Turkey after more than 5...
Zabit Kişi, who was one of the two Turkish nationals who were abducted from a plane in Kazakhstan in mid-September 2017, was formally arrested...
Turkish Education Ministry launches investigation against use of ‘inter-religous dialogue’ phrase
Turkish Education Ministry has launched an paranoid investigation against a teacher of the primary school student over her use of sentences including the phrase of...
3,206 Turkish nationals seek asylum in Germany in first half of 2017
A total of 3,206 Turkish nationals have applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of 2017, data from the German Federal...
Turkish communication authority to have power to block social media on national security grounds
A new draft regulation would give Turkey’s top telecom authority the power to block access to social media platforms like Facebook, X, WhatsApp and...
Erdoğan advisor likens Turkey purge to Aborigine, Native American, Armenian cases
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup era...
Prison denies inmate his own book for being ‘motivational’
A prison administration in northwest Turkey has refused to deliver inmate Mehmet Alçınkaya a copy of his autobiography on the grounds that the book’s...
Turkey records 364 deaths in the textile industry in the last decade
Turkey has recorded at least 364 deaths in the textile industry in the last 10 years, the Bianet news website reported, citing the Health and...
Turkey’s higher education board bans dissertations in Kurdish: report
Turkey’s Higher Education Board (YÖK) has prohibited students studying Kurdish language and literature at Turkish universities from writing their dissertations in Kurdish, Turkish Minute...
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