Report: 226 women killed by men across Turkey in first half of 2017
A report released by the Umut Foundation has revealed that 226 women were killed by men in the first six months of 2017 across Turkey.
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CHP deputy Tanrıkulu questions Turkish PM about detention of human rights defenders
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary question and asked Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım about the...
Dismissed Turkish academic returns to his university as a student
A former academic at Ankara University’s Faculty of Law, who was dismissed from duty by Turkish government's executive decree under the rule of emergency declared...
EP’s Harms to visit Turkish teacher jailed over alleged Gülen links in Georgia
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, is going to visit Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk...
Veteran Turkish teacher has to work as small farmer after dismissed by Turkey’s gov’t
An unidentified Turkish teacher with 35.5 years of experience in education, according to his own telling, has had to make a living as a...
MÜSİAD’s ads on Turkey’s controversial coup not allowed in US for being ‘too political’
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has refused to allow ads prepared by the US branch of the Independent Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (MÜSİAD)...
Dozens of people detained across Turkey over their alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police teams on Thursday detained dozens of people in many provinces of Turkey over their alleged links to faith-based Gülen movement on Thursday...
Pilot who flew Erdoğan on Turkey’s coup night, fired over alleged Gülen links
Barış Yurtseven, the pilot of the plane which brought Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Dalaman in Muğla province to İstanbul on the...
Director of coup movie detained after trailer showed Turkey’s Erdoğan threatened with gun
Ali Avcı, the director of a soon-to-be-released movie about a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, has been detained over his...
One year on, new research uncovers Turkey’s coup bid staged by Erdoğan himself
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has published an updated version of last week’s damning report on Turkey’s failed coup bid that confirmed long-held suspicions...
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