Some 400,000 Syrian children left out of Turkish education system
Turkey was unable to provide education for 397,253 Syrian children who were under temporary protection status during the 2019-2020 academic year, Turkish Minute reported,...
İstanbul’s healthcare director calls on residents to have at least 3 children
The provincial healthcare director of Turkey’s most populous city of İstanbul has called on the city’s residents to have at least three children, echoing...
Erdoğan supporters discuss on Clubhouse how to exterminate political prisoners, suggest putting poison in...
Audio records of a chatroom on social media app Clubhouse reveal a conversation among supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on how to...
Educator İnandı tortured and his arm broken in 3 places, wife says
Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator rendered from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was tortured and his right arm broken in three places by Turkish...
Turkish court freed 3 alleged ISIL members accused of kidnapping Yazidi girl: report
Earlier this year a Turkish court released from pretrial detention three alleged members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who...
Mob attacks pro-opposition Halk TV crew during live broadcast
A group of people in the southwestern Turkish resort town of Marmaris on Thursday interrupted a live show broadcast by the government-critical Halk TV...
Murder suspect out on bail accused of new femicide
Ümitcan Uygun, accused of murdering his girlfriend Aleyna Çakır (aka Sema Esen) and released from prison pending trial on July 17, was detained as...
New report details role of Erdoğan’s troll army in Turkey’s democratic backsliding
A report by a newly established Washington, D.C., think tank revealed how Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) established and used an army...
Turkey says it won’t shoulder new Afghan migration, slams US
Turkey’s foreign ministry has called the United States “irresponsible” after the Biden administration announced it would expand efforts to assist at-risk Afghan citizens with...
10 arrested on charges of murdering Kurdish family in central Turkey
Ten people have been arrested and jailed in connection with the killing of seven members of a Kurdish family in the central province of...
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