Former union leader criticizes Turkish vocational schools for exploiting student labor
Former union leader Feray Aytekin Aydoğan in a column for the Birgün daily criticized Turkish vocational schools for lax occupational safety measures and for exploiting their...
Turkish Embassy in Indonesia spied on critics of Erdoğan
The Turkish diplomatic mission in Indonesia engaged in a campaign of intelligence gathering and collected information on the activities of critics of Turkish President...
Turkish gov’t prosecutes 292 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 402 social media accounts and taken legal action against 292 users over the last week (Aug. 6-Aug. 13) on...
Dismissed Turkish officer’s workplace accident highlights hardships after post-coup purges
A former Turkish military officer who was dismissed after a 2016 coup attempt and later tried and convicted was critically injured in a workplace...
Turkey still among top 10 offenders in CPJ’s census of imprisoned journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has published its annual prison census for 2023, which shows that Turkey is still among the top 10...
New York mosque funded by Turkish gov’t denies religious services for Gülen movement supporter
The Brooklyn Eyup Sultan Mosque, which is funded and operated by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), on Sunday denied religious services for deceased Turkish-American...
Turkish government asks Switzerland to track Erdoğan critics
Turkish government has requested help from Switzerland in tracking critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a bilateral agreement on intelligence sharing...
Students go hungry in Turkey as poverty pushes children into work: report
A report by the Education and Science Workers’ Union (Eğitim Sen) has found that widespread poverty in Turkey’s fifth largest city is pushing children...
Turkish authorities continue to engage in transnational repression, says HRW report
Turkish authorities have continued the practice of organizing the abduction and rendition to Turkey of individuals with alleged links to the Gülen movement, Human...
US appeals court rejects Turkey’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit against Erdoğan guards
A US district appeals court in Washington, D.C., has rejected Turkish government motions to dismiss two lawsuits filed by protesters who were attacked by...
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