10 million children in Turkey living in poverty: report
Nearly 10 million children in Turkey are living in poverty, according to a child poverty report released by The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV).
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Turkey’s top court rules government violated academic’s freedom of expression
The Constitutional Court of Turkey has ruled that the government violated academic Yaman Akdeniz’s right to freedom of expression by refusing to release official...
1.5 million euros awarded to plaintiffs from Turkey by rights court in 2020
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Turkey to pay a total of 1,548,027 euros in awards to plaintiffs in 2020 after...
Turkish authorities continue to defy top court ruling on Armenian church foundation’s property rights
Turkish authorities have continued to defy a Constitutional Court ruling that recognizes the Vakıflıköy Armenian Church Foundation’s property rights, refusing to return contested real...
Prominent social security expert given suspended sentence over Gülen links
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence of three years, 45 days to Ali Tezel, a journalist and social security expert, due...
Opposition leader faces 2nd verbal attack after Erdoğan’s praise for first one
Turkey’s nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener came under verbal attack as she was addressing locals in Sivas province, the second attack...
Pro-government Turkish columnist faces backlash over hate speech against Alawites in Syria
A Turkish columnist has come under fire for hate speech after referring to Nusayris, a sect of Alawites in Syria, as “dogs of imperialism”...
Turkish teacher fired over alleged Gülen links dies by suicide
Gazi Bahargülü, a former teacher dismissed from his job over alleged links to the Gülen movement, died by suicide on Sunday in the southern...
Investigation launched into Turkish-Cypriot academic for insulting Erdoğan
A police investigation has been launched into Associate Professor Hasan Ulaş Altıok, a Turkish-Cypriot academic, on allegations of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Police detain 5 more people for playing Kurdish songs in southeastern Turkey
Turkish police have detained five people for playing Kurdish-language songs at a wedding in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Bold news website reported...
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