Campaign seeks donations for purge-victim Turkish refugees in Greece
A fundraising campaign has been launched for Turkish refugees who have crossed into Greece to escape an ongoing purge and persecution being carried out...
Operative of Turkey’s Erdoğan in his witch hunt targeting followers of Gülen movement fired...
A Turkish lawyer working for the Dutch government was fired from her job due to her active role in a massive post-coup witch hunt targeting...
Report: Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia
As of Sunday, Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey for one year, Paul Benjamin Osterlund wrote for The Verge, saying, “Authorities said the ban...
Turkey celebrates Labour Day amid problems of work safety, lack of unionisation
As Turkey marks International Workers Day, or Labour Day, work safety, job guarantees and a lack of organized labor remain key problems for Turkish...
Turkey’s election board no longer requires presidential candidates to provide a copy of diploma
Turkey’s Higher Board of Election (YSK) has eliminated an obligation that required candidates of presidential and parliamentary elections to provide a copy of their...
Businessman fleeing persecution in Turkey dies in Sarajevo public park
Recep Güneş, a Turkish businessman who sought asylum in Bosnia after fleeing the Turkish government’s post-coup purge, died on Monday at a public park in the...
HDP deputy asks Turkish justice minister questions about teacher who died in jail
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Bektaş has submitted a parliamentary inquiry to the Parliament’s Speaker’s Office in which he asked several...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s Pelican conspiracy in Turkey’s propaganda war
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Perhaps the most conniving and cunning arm of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mammoth propaganda machine is a little-known clandestine group called...
Turkish court gives prison sentences to journalists, media workers in Feza Gazetecilik trial
An İstanbul court during the fourth hearing on Monday handed down verdicts to 20 Turkish journalists and media employees in a trial concerning Feza...
Witnesses, autopsy show jailed Turkish teacher died due to denial of crucial treatment
Halime Gülsu, a 34-year-old unemployed English teacher, died in jail on Saturday because she was denied the necessary treatment for a chronic disease she...
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