Evolution theory no longer part of Turkish curriculum, official says
Turkey’s Board of Education and Discipline Chairman Alpaslan Durmuş has said chapters on evolution are being removed from ninth grade biology textbooks and that...
24 PACE members urge Turkey to release jailed deputies immediately
Twenty-four members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 16 countries and 5 political groups has issued a written statement...
Nazarbayev says Kazakh-Turk schools belong to Kazakhstan, no extradition of teachers
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Thursday that Kazakh-Turk high schools that are allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement belong to Kazakhstan and...
Turkish gov’t prevents sacked teachers to work in private sector
Turkish government ordered private companies to not hire teachers who were dismissed from public schools as part of massive purge launched against critics and...
Details of brutal torture at Turkey’s black site exposed
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The gruesome details of torture and abuse perpetrated by Turkish police at a black site in 2016 were revealed during the testimony of...
Turkish man jailed over alleged Gülen links dies as result of poor medical care...
Mehmet Özbir, 41, on Tuesday died of cancer that developed when he was in pretrial detention over Gülen links and which caused his health...
Health of two educators on hunger strike in Turkey worsening
The health of two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on a hunger strike for 118 days to protest their dismissal...
Turkey’s Erdoğan vows to pursue Gülen movement followers who ‘escaped the sword’
Amid an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said he would not end his campaign...
615 Turkish civil servants have applied for asylum in Germany
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday said 615 Turkish civil servants have asked for political asylum in Germany since a failed coup...
Somali president’s son given $906 fine in fatal car accident trial in Turkey
An İstanbul court has handed down a prison sentence of two-and-a-half years to a son of the Somali president who was involved in a...
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