SCF study reveals horrible pattern of hate speech by Erdoğan, the chief hatemonger in...
The xenophobic feelings towards minorities, vulnerable groups, opposition figures and foreigners in today’s Turkey are being charged by country’s authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkish Foreign Ministry delivers diplomatic note to US ambassador over violence in DC
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned US Ambassador to Ankara John Bass to deliver a diplomatic note over a melee outside the Turkish diplomatic...
Two expelled educators detained on 75th day of their hunger strike
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Turkish police, after midnight on Sunday, have raided the houses belonging to Semih Özakça and Nuriye Gülmen, educators who went on a hunger strike...
Turkey defies UN on abductions with cases of disappearances piling up
Defying the United Nations that slammed Turkey last year for enforced disappearances and urged the country’s leaders to offer guarantee of non-repetitions, Turkish government...
Prison population exceeds capacity of jails in Turkey, inmates sleep in shifts
Turkey's Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Basri Bağcı has informed Parliament that Turkish prisons are currently 9 percent over capacity, saying that some inmates have...
Teacher, lawyer go missing in new wave of post-coup disappearances in Turkey’s capital
Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining...
Mother of hunger striking teacher detained by police in Ankara
Nine protesters, including the mother of Semih Özakça, were detained in Ankara by police on Thursday during a solidarity protest with dismissed teacher Özakça...
Turkey’s official news agency refutes claims of Malaysian deputy PM and police chief over...
Turkish government's official news agency refutes the claims of Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Malaysian police chief...
CHP’s Pavey says inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkey’s prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in...
Turkey’s main opposition leader says expelled educators on hunger strike being forced to die
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has broken his silence about two educators who went on a hunger strike...
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