NRC reports Turkish-Dutch youngsters trained by radical Islamist Nureddin Yıldız in Turkey
The political Islamist National View (Milli Görüş) organization has taken dozens of Turkish-Dutch youngsters to Turkey in recent years to have them taught by...
Turkey blocks hundreds of social media accounts after protests over İstanbul mayor’s detention and...
Turkish authorities have blocked access to dozens of social media accounts that have posted about protests following the detention and subsequent arrest and removal...
Int’l rights groups call for release of detained Kurdish journalists, political activists in Turkey
International media freedom and human rights organizations have called on Turkish authorities to stop their “systematic harassment and intimidation of Kurdish journalists, media workers,...
Appeals court upholds sentence of former teacher suffering from rare form of cancer
An appeals court on Friday approved a nine year, four month prison sentence for former teacher Ayşe Özdoğan, 33, who suffers from a rare...
10 people trying to flee persecution in Turkey detained at Greek border
Turkish security forces on Friday and Saturday detained 10 people, including women, in Edirne province near the Greek border over their alleged membership in the...
15 human rights organizations urge Turkish authorities to immediately end crackdown on freedoms
A coalition of 15 human rights and media freedom organizations has called on Turkish authorities to immediately end their attacks on peaceful protesters, stop targeting journalists...
Opposition roadmap for undoing Erdoğan’s legacy
Turkey’s multi-faceted opposition alliance wants to undo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s two-decade legacy of highly centralized and religiously conservative rule.
Here is a look at...
Turkey’s top court accepts indictment seeking to disband pro-Kurdish party
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Monday accepted an indictment by a top prosecutor seeking to disband a pro-Kurdish opposition party on terror-related charges, The Associated...
COMMENTARY — Case of airbase commander tells the tale of Erdoğan’s Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The unlawful arrest and wrongful prosecution of an important airbase commander in Turkey’s northwestern city of Bandırma is one of many pieces...
A year after deadly Istanbul nightclub fire, victims’ families still waiting for justice
Nearly a year after a devastating fire at an Istanbul nightclub claimed 29 lives, the families of the victims are still waiting for those...
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