HR activists in Turkey demand perpetrators of Roboski massacre to be brought to justice
Turkey's Human Rights Association (İHD) has released press statements in İstanbul and Ankara on the Roboski massacre that left 34 people dead in 2011 as a...
Turkey’s Erdoğan regime makes eid al-fitr as an occasion of persecution for alleged Gülen...
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government, which has launched a massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged followers of the Gülen movement, has made...
Turkish Constitutional Court refuses to release hunger striker Gülmen and Özakça
The Turkish Constitutional Court has rejected a petition for the release of two fired educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on...
Jailed HDP co-chair Demirtaş calls on Turkish educators on hunger strike to end protest
Jailed co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has called on two educators who went on a hunger strike after they...
Monument of Kurdish philosopher and poet Ahmad-i Khani demolished by Turkish government
Trustee Ulaş Akhan, who was appointed by the government of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to replace pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) mayor...
Turkey’s Interior Minister slams 111 figures who support academics on hunger strike
Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has harshly criticized 111 prominent figures who in a newspaper ad on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to...
Truckload of manure dumped near CHP ‘March of Justice’ camp in Düzce
An unidentified person dumped a truckload of manure near Turkey@s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) “March for Justice” camp in Düzce on Tuesday...
Turkish government launches probe into dismissed protestor Veli Saçılık
Turkish government has launched an investigation into sociologist and activist Veli Saçılık who has been carrying out a protest demanding to be returned to...
Mother with infant under arrest until husband surrenders self in Turkey
Dilek Sağlam, a teacher and mother of a 10-month-old baby, has been under arrest since June 12 because her husband could not be found...
111 prominent figures call on Turkish gov’t to take action for academics on hunger...
On the 111th day of a hunger strike launched by two academics, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who were fired from their jobs in...
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