Post-coup purge victim, family barred from dormitory allocated to earthquake survivors
A former teacher who was fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and his family haven’t been...
Turkey marked highest number of threats and attacks against women journalists in first quarter...
Turkey marked the highest number of threats and attacks against female journalists in the world in the first quarter of 2021, according to a...
Turkish President Erdoğan’s pending state visit draws ire in Germany
The prospect of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan being received with military honors in Berlin has some German politicians up in arms, according to...
Turkey detains 103 in operations targeting alleged Gülen followers
A total of 103 people have been detained over the past week in police operations that targeted alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Top court finds no rights violation in ban on 2016 gay pride march in...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the government did not violate the right to peaceful assembly by banning a gay pride march in Ankara...
Lawyers appeal to top court for Öğüt family members killed in Kurdish village fire
Lawyers for the Öğüt family, nine members of which died in a blaze in Turkey’s southeastern village of Altınova (Vartinis), have appealed to the...
Austrian citizen detained at Turkish airport due to Facebook posts critical to Erdoğan
Ümit S, a Kurd born in Turkey holding Austrian citizenship, was banned from Turkey for five years for criticising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkish authorities detain 353 on Gülen links in sweeping operations across the country
Turkish authorities have detained 353 people for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced Friday on X.
Yerlikaya said...
Purge victim succumbs to cancer without saying goodbye to her jailed husband
Nursel Ekici, 48, a former teacher who was fired by an emergency decree as part of Turkey’s post-coup purge of state institutions, died of...
Dismissed teacher reinstated 2 years after he died of cancer
Salman Taş, 57, a teacher who was fired from his job by a government decree without due process, has been reinstated two years after...
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