Refugee children isolated in separate school after Turkish parents reject mixed education
The children of Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees were grouped into a single school in the Central Anatolian city of Kırşehir after Turkish parents...
105 active duty soldiers among 167 sought in post-coup purge: report
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 167 people, at least 105 of whom are soldiers on active duty, in two separate investigations over...
Turkish government bans Kurdish theater play in İstanbul
The governor of İstanbul’s Gaziosmanpaşa district yesterday prohibited the staging of a theater play in Kurdish just hours before the performance was scheduled to...
Photographs of deputy police inspector who died in prison quarantine show criminal neglect
Photos of former deputy policy inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu, 44, who died in a quarantine cell in prison on August 29, have been revealed by...
İstanbul court upholds prison sentences of journalists from Turkey’s pro-opposition Sözcü daily
The prison sentences of nine journalists from Turkey’s pro-opposition Sözcü daily who were charged with supporting the Gülen movement have been upheld by the...
2 lower courts defy Turkey’s Constitutional Court amid calls for restructuring
Two lower courts have openly defied rulings of the Turkish Constitutional Court amid calls by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his key ally...
Turkish gov’t targets Spotify because of podcasts, pundit says: report
The audio streaming platform Spotify, which faces a ban in Turkey if it does not abide by a government notice to submit a license...
Woman imprisoned with 40-day-old infant on trumped-up terror charges denied parole
A woman who was arrested with her 40-day-old baby on trumped-up terror charges in 2016 was denied release from prison by the parole board...
Erdoğan critics profiled by Turkish Embassy in Oslo included in terrorism indictment in Turkey:...
Critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who had been profiled by the Turkish Embassy in Oslo were included in a terrorism probe based...
Rights organizations urge Ankara not to deport activist Dursoltan Taganova to Turkmenistan
Human Rights Watch reported on Monday that it and 10 other human rights organizations had called on the Turkish government not to deport Turkmen...
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