Gülen-inspired JWF reiterates its call for int’l community to establish a committee to investigate...
The Journalist and Writers Foundation (JWF), affiliated with the Gülen movement, that has been widely and systematically persecuted by Turkish government, has called inter-governmental organisations...
Pro-Kurdish Ağrı Mayor Sakık removed from post by AKP govenment
Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Wednesday appointed a trustee to the Ağrı Municipality, which was run by pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) mayor Sırrı Sakık.
Sakık...
Women’s rights activists slam government proposal to combat gender-based violence as ‘inadequate’
Women's rights activists have criticized a government proposal to combat gender-based violence, saying it was inadequate to protect women and lenient on perpetrators of...
Turkish courts give life sentences to 890 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish courts have sentenced 890 people to life in prison in 137 cases across Turkey over alleged links to the Gülen movement and coup...
Turkish gov’t arrests mother of a baby with congenital heart defect on coup charges
A social media user with the username “@sercancan32151” on Tuesday took to Twitter to say that the woman in the photo above has recently...
Young Turkish teacher dies by suicide after losing teaching position in controversial hiring process
A young teacher in Turkey’s Giresun province died by suicide after being denied a teaching position despite a higher exam score, sparking renewed criticism...
Turkey’s Education Ministry: Wives should obey their husbands, not marry atheists
A textbook on the life of the Prophet Muhammad prepared by the Turkish Education Ministry in the framework of a highly controversial new national...
3-year-old prescribed psychiatric medication after mother locked up on bogus terrorism charges
Hülya Bayden, 31, said in a letter to pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu that her 3-year-old daughter...
Erdoğan says ‘infamous Hungarian Jew’ Soros is behind businessman Kavala
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said George Soros, a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist, was behind jailed Turkish activist and businessman Osman...
Turkey’s Saturday Mothers announces 701st gathering in İstanbul despite ban
The Saturday Mothers announced on Friday that they would be at Galatasaray Square for their 701st weekly gathering on Saturday despite a prohibition by...
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