Peace academics remember dismissed colleague Traş 4 years after his death by suicide
A group known as the “peace academics” commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of their colleague Mehmet Fatih Traş, who died by suicide...
Journalist Dündar calls attention to Turkey’s political prisoners via replica of prison cell in...
Journalist Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of Turkey’s critical Cumhuriyet daily who lives in exile in Berlin, has made a bid to attract public attention...
7 students face up to 3 years in prison over Boğaziçi protests
Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to three years in prison for seven students over a poster depicting Islam’s holiest site with LGBT imagery, AFP...
Noncommissioned officer accused of abduction and rape remains free pending trial
A Turkish court yesterday rejected a request for the arrest of Musa Orhan, a noncommissioned gendarmerie officer who allegedly kidnapped and raped 18-year-old Ipek...
Brother of police inspector found dead in quarantine cell points to ill-treatment and gross...
Harun Kabakçıoğlu, the brother of former police inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu who was found dead on a chair in a quarantine cell in prison in...
Kosovo to try individuals involved in illegal deportation of Turkish teachers
Kosovar authorities have indicted three individuals involved in the illegal deportation of six Turkish teachers to Turkey on March 29, 2018, Balkan Insight reported.
The...
Daughter of abducted former bureaucrat asks President Erdoğan to help find her father
Nursena Küçüközyiğit, whose father Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit is suspected to be the latest victim of enforced disappearance, called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
48 trustees appointed to pro-Kurdish municipalities since 2019: HDP report
The Turkish government has removed from office 48 co-mayors from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing party with majority Kurdish support, and replaced...
Turkish gov’t to create its ‘truth ministry’ amid rising censorship
The Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency has announced that Turkey will create its own fact-checking mechanism to “fight against lies and false facts...
More than 800 Boğaziçi protestors subjected to ill-treatment by police: report
At least 800 people demonstrating against the appointment of a pro-government rector to İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University were subjected to ill-treatment by police officers...
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