Hate Speech

Turkey’s first openly racist political party was founded on Dec. 20, the Duvar news portal reported on Jan. 5. The Ötüken Union Party was established by a group of Turkish nationalists and has officially been included by the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office in the yearly political party list. Ötüken is the capital city in both Turkic […]

Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, suggested during a live TV program on Monday that Turkish intelligence should kill family members of jailed Gülenists in order to turn the inmates into operatives for the Erdoğan regime. Speaking during a live TV show along with his program partner journalist Fuat

A Turkish teacher in Turkey’s southeastern Şırnak province has recently imposed a ban on mother language usage in an elementary school classroom, according to pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aycan Irmez. Irmez issued a parliamentary question to the Minister of Education regarding to the incident, asking if there was a directive telling teachers to prevent Kurdish children from

Turkey’s leading pro-govenment dailies and journalists hang the flags out after prominent human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala have recently been taken into custody by police “for getting involving in terrorism activities in Turkey.” In its front-page story on Friday Yeni Şafak launched a smear campaign against Kavala under the headline “Key Figure of Terror

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said there is no journalist who was imprisoned in Turkey that those in prisons are only terrorists and thieves. Speaking to a business forum in US on Wednesday, Erdoğan said Turkey arrested scores of journalists not because of their journalistic activities but because of criminal records. “The ones who have been

Addressing students being sent abroad with a scholarship, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak has said he would strangle supports of Gülen movement wherever he sees them, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Claiming that Gülen movement members, who Turkish government accuses of having mounted a botched coup

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group deputy chairman and Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş warned party members in Kayseri on Thursday not to greet followers of the Gülen movement during the Eid al-Adha festival on Friday and advised members to report them to the police instead. Speaking during a party gathering in Kayseri

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has published a 54-page-long booklet on the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), in which it described the jailed educators who have been on hunger strike in protest of the government’s post-coup dismissals. “The endless plot by the terrorist organization: The Truth about Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca,” the book’s title read. Gülmen