Turkey to deport 2 Syrian refugees for threatening, denigrating Turkish women
Two Syrian refugees in Turkey have been detained and will be deported after footage showing them using profanities and threatening Turkish women with rape...
Press Freedom in Turkey: 2021 in Review
The Turkish government continued to muzzle the press in 2021 in a variety of ways, including imprisoning journalists and using regulatory authorities to exert...
Court releases assailant who staged attack at HDP office in İstanbul
An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to release from detention a man who staged an attack at a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) building...
2 men beaten by police who raided the wrong house
Two men were beaten by narcotics police in Mersin province who allegedly raided their house by mistake, Mezopotamya news agency reported on Thursday.
İsmail and...
Body in potter’s field identified as refugee thrown into river by Turkish gendarmes
A body buried in a potter’s field in İstanbul has been identified as one of the refugees who were allegedly thrown into a river...
Boğaziçi University academic says he was fired over a tweet
Can Candan, a former faculty member at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University and a documentary filmmaker, has said he was informed that his dismissal from the...
Turkish far-right group beat Afghan man and shared video on social media
A new Turkish far-right group shared a video on social media yesterday showing one of their members beating an Afghan refugee in an apparent...
Reactions mount as AKP gov’t accused of favoritism in appointment of teachers
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been accused of favoritism in the appointment of public school teachers, with thousands of candidates saying...
Facebook bans pro-Kurdish rights Mezopotamya news agency’s account
Facebook has banned the verified account of the pro-Kurdish rights Mezopotamya news agency (MA), which had 100,000 followers, the Bianet news web site reported...
Leader of right-wing party warns Turkish citizens of ‘Syrian threat’ in anti-migrant social media...
Ümit Özdağ, leader of the newly established far-right Victory Party (ZP), warned Turkish citizens of a "Syrian threat" in a video shared on Twitter...
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