Education Ministry asks purged teachers to prove ‘innocence’ to return to posts
Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked teachers who have been removed from their posts through controversial government decrees to prove their ‘innocence’ in order to...
Turkish gov’t launches investigation into Atatürkist organization over ‘coup tweet’
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday launched an investigation into the Atatürkist Thought Organization (ADD) over a tweet shared yesterday on the...
35-day advertising ban imposed on Cumhuriyet over report on Erdoğan aide
Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, has imposed a 35-day advertising ban on...
We face threats, prosecution for reporting on abuses in prisons: human rights lawyer
Nagehan Avçil, a human rights lawyer from the Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD), said in an interview that lawyers face arrest and prosecution...
Turkey arrests two more Kurdish mayors
As part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the co-mayors of İpekyolu in the eastern Turkish province of...
Turkey’s Labor Ministry refuses to certify exam of former public servant despite scoring second...
A former public servant identified only by the initials A.B., 28, said he was not awarded his certificate by the Ministry of Family, Labor...
Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen spies over Erdoğan opponents in Denmark
An adviser at the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen has confirmed that it collected information on alleged supporters of the Gülen movement, a faith-based social...
Critics whisked away from streets in Turkey, detained in secret locations, faced torture
A new study has revealed that Turkish government has resumed illegal abductions and enforced disappearances that were believed to be a thing of the...
Turkey’s largest trial of journalists opens on Monday
The first trial hearing is set to start on Monday against 30 leading journalists and newspaper executives in the case where the prosecutor demands...
Court charges jailed US pastor with attempting to destroy constitutional order in Turkey
A Turkish court on Thursday charged American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in Turkey in October due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
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