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...
Turkey sentences 52 teachers to years of jail terms over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish court gives prison sentences to 52 teachers between 3 years and 10.5 years in Eskisehir porvince of Turkey on Thursday over their...
Turkey issues arrest warrants for another 56 lawyers over alleged Gülen links
The İstanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 56 lawyers on Friday as part of an investigation targeting people allegedly linked to...
Dismissed police chief, businessman detained while escaping from Turkey to Greece, Bulgaria
Former police chief M.G., who was dismissed in Van province as part of post-coup crackdown on Gülen movement, was detained on Friday near Turkey’s Greek...
Turkey’s new emergency decree sends post-coup ‘terrorists’ to mandatory military service
Turkish men who are accused of having links to the perceived terror groups will immediately be recruited to do their mandatory military service, according...
İstanbul court orders not to release 6 journalists over alleged links to Gülen movement
An İstanbul court ruled on Friday to remand in custody all alleged “media leg” suspects, including journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Mehmet Altan and novelist Ahmat...
Reuters research says 60 percent of Turks don’t trust mainstream media
Sixty percent of Turkish people do not trust the news published in the mainstream media, according to a Digital News Report published by the...
UN body asks Turkey to compensate businessman arrested, tortured in post-coup crackdown
The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which works under UN Human Rights Council, has called on Turkish government to compensate a...
Woman miscarried twins in Turkish prison, dead babies not returned to family
A news report has revealed on Thursday that the 28-year-old Turkish woman, Nurhayat Yıldız, has miscarried her twins in a prison and the dead...
ECtHR fines Turkey for violating Alevis’ freedom of faith
Turkey has been ordered to pay 54,400 euros in damages by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to the Cem Foundation for violating...
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