Football club fined for Kurdish-language jersey ad

A football club based in the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır has been fined for a Kurdish-language advertising slogan on its jerseys, according to...

Most productive academics leave Turkey to work abroad: study

Academics with the highest level of productivity are leaving Turkey to continue their work abroad, with 12,000 such academics working in other countries, according...

KESK: Over 50 public officials, who were dismissed by gov’t decrees, commit suicide in...

The Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK) has announced that more than 50 people, who were among the public employees dismissed by Turkish...

Police detain 7 distribution staff of pro-Kurdish dailies in Van

Turkish police raided the distribution office of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and Rojeva Medya dailies and detained 5 office staff in the eastern province of...

Peace academics in exile sued by Turkish gov’t over ‘propaganda of terror organization’

A lawsuit has been filed by the İstanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office against the 100 academics, who took refuge in Germany, over allegedly "propagandizing the...

Video shows Malaysian police detained Turkish expats at Turkey’s request

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Untitled-1.mp4 A recent video recording submitted to Turkey Purge shows that Malaysia was detaining three Turks in the country at the request of Turkish government. Malay police...

Some 400,000 Syrian children left out of Turkish education system

Turkey was unable to provide education for 397,253 Syrian children who were under temporary protection status during the 2019-2020 academic year, Turkish Minute reported,...

AKP, MHP reject motion to investigate police officer suicides

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have rejected a parliamentary motion to investigate a rising...

Protests start in Germany ahead of visit by Turkish President Erdoğan

People across Germany took to the streets over the weekend to protest a state visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sept. 27-29. According...

Amid a culture of impunity, courts protect people in positions of power, lawyers say

Lawyers involved in legal proceedings concerning vulnerable communities in Turkey have said the judiciary often protects people in power by granting them impunity. Speaking to...

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