Twenty out of 31 Democratic Regions Party (DBP) members in the southeastern province of Mardin who had been detained last week were arrested on Saturday. Among those arrested was the party’s provincial co-chairperson in Mardin, Ahmet Eken. The DBP members were detained following simultaneous raids in their residences as part of an investigation conducted by […]
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Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a Pakistani student who attends a Turkish school in Islamabad bursts into tears after she learned the Pakistani government had decided to expel 108 Turkish teachers from 28 international schools across the country. “To every other teacher, to every other person on this planet, to all the Turkish
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Van Mayor Bekir Kaya, who was elected on the ticket of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2014 local elections, was taken to İstanbul’s Silivri Prison after a Van court ruled for his arrest on Friday. Counterterrorism police raided the Van municipal offices on Thursday and conducted searches of the premises as part
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As many as 70 academics including professors, associate professors and research assistants from the İstanbul-based Yıldız Teknik University were detained following raids on Friday as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams conducted searches of the offices of the academics on the university campus as well as their residences on
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“…Thought a lot about committing suicide. Even though I chose to live for my children, I no longer expect anything from life,” B.U., a former accounting instructor said, pouring out his heart when asked only a couple of warm-up questions before our interview. Dismissed following an administrative investigation at a high school in Turkey’s western
“A prominent columnist wrote recently about how President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey hates cigarettes so much that he confiscates packs from his followers, lecturing them on the evils of smoking.The columnist, Kadri Gursel, then urged his readers to protest the president’s anti-democratic ways by lighting a cigarette and not putting it out. For that,
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Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has brought a motion to Parliament that proposes rapists in Turkish jails be released if they marry their victims, a way out of prison for more than 4,000 inmates convicted of rape. The motion was brought to the floor of the General Assembly and was approved by AKP
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PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, has released the names of 145 journalists who were jailed by the Turkish government after a failed coup attempt on July 15. According to the association, they managed to gather the list by cross-referencing the various sources available to them at present and will update it as more
French journalist Olivier Bertrand, who was deported by Turkey on Sunday after three days in detention, has said his time in custody was nothing compared to what dissidents face in Turkey. “A big thank you to all for your mobilization. I’m writing right now the story of my detention and interrogation for Les Jours. Unfortunately
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