Opposition leader faces 2nd verbal attack after Erdoğan’s praise for first one
Turkey’s nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener came under verbal attack as she was addressing locals in Sivas province, the second attack...
Deputy mayor from Erdoğan’s party says opposition politicians need to be hanged
Navi Çokan, a deputy district mayor in southeastern Turkey, said in a Facebook post that the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is damned...
146 workers died in occupational accidents in Turkey in July: report
A total of 146 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in July, according to a monthly report by the Health and Safety Labor...
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,...
Turkey’s popular online debate network faces investigation for incitement
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into a popular online debate network, accusing the platform of inciting hatred and enmity in society and inciting...
Families of police chiefs who led 2013 corruption probes denied parole
Family members of former police chiefs who led corruption operations in 2013 that implicated then-prime minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...
New warden pressuring inmates with arbitrary restrictions in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison, families claim
Kahraman Topaloğlu, the new warden of a notorious prison in İstanbul’s Silivri district, is imposing arbitrary restrictions in order to put psychological pressure on...
İstanbul’s healthcare director calls on residents to have at least 3 children
The provincial healthcare director of Turkey’s most populous city of İstanbul has called on the city’s residents to have at least three children, echoing...
Erdoğan supporters discuss on Clubhouse how to exterminate political prisoners, suggest putting poison in...
Audio records of a chatroom on social media app Clubhouse reveal a conversation among supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on how to...
Educator İnandı tortured and his arm broken in 3 places, wife says
Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator rendered from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was tortured and his right arm broken in three places by Turkish...
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