COMMENTARY — New tools for election fraud and voter intimidation in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The possibility of holding free and fair elections in Turkey effectively disappeared in 2015 when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his associates...
CoE calls on Turkey to take further steps on violence against women
The Council of Europe (CoE) on Monday called on Turkey to take further action to comply fully with the Istanbul Convention’s provisions on violence...
Ex-Erdoğan aide had access blocked to online content about him after top court appointment
Metin Kıratlı, a former bureaucrat who used to serve at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidential palace and was appointed to Turkey’s Constitutional Court in July, has...
82-year-old philanthropist with Alzheimer’s remains behind bars in Turkey
Eighty-two-year-old businessman and philanthropist Yusuf Bekmezci remains behind bars in Turkey despite serious health problems and advanced age.
Bekmezci suffers from Alzheimer’s and is unable...
Over 324,000 Turkish university students suspend studies amid economic crisis
More than 324,000 university students in Turkey have paused or abandoned their education over the past five years, as continued economic hardship and rising...
Pervasive distrust defines Turkey’s changing media landscape: report
A report released on June 10 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), an independent nonpartisan policy institute based in Washington, D.C., maps out...
Turkey removes another Kurdish mayor from office
The Turkish Interior Ministry, which has recently increased its pressure on opposition-run municipalities, has removed another Kurdish mayor from his post due to his...
Turkish prosecutors order detention of nearly 700 in Gülen crackdown
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of nearly 700 people, including military and justice ministry personnel, state media said, intensifying moves against a...
Turkish teacher working in Libya moves to four different countries to avoid extradition
İbrahim Karadağ, who was a teacher in a Turkish school in Libya, had to flee the country in 2016 after the Turkish government demanded...
Jailed Oda TV journalist released at first hearing of trial: report
Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news editor for the OdaTV online news website who was arrested in June on charges of revealing state secrets, was...
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