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“Istanbul never leaves you – its beauty pulls you back,” a friend told me as I packed up my life here. After five years it was time to leave, and I recalled with a smile ...
Raife İnatçı, a 70-year-old illiterate woman from the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır, was sent to jail due to a placard she carried during a march in 2009 that referred to jailed terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ ...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision that acquitted a defendant who described a failed coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016 a “scenario” and a “play” set up by Turkish ...
The daughter of a former Justice and Development Party (AKP) district mayor in southeastern Turkey was paid a total of TL 251,000 (around $45,000) in the form of a monthly salary by the municipality over ...
he report noted that the majority of the arrests against refugees took place in Istanbul that is considered the main destination for refugees due to the availability of work opportunities. A wide-scale security campaign has ...
Calling for peace is still considered a crime in Turkey Three-and-a-half years have passed since the Academics for Peace (AfP in short: Baris icin Akademisyenler in Turkish) boldly told Turkey’s government “we will not be a party ...
Instagram post of İbrahim Layık who committed suicide after this photo. A Kurdish security guard working at İstanbul Airport committed suicide on Monday evening, jumping from an elevated area in an airport terminal and indicating ...
Popstars are political assets and the ruling party is losing them Famous faces queued up to support an AKP rival who was stripped of Istanbul’s mayorship. Mashup image taken from Indigodergis.com. On June 23, Turkey’s largest city ...
Despite criticizing the U.S. decision not to extend any sanction waivers for Iranian oil customers, Turkey appears to be fully complying with the U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing tanker tracking data. Turkey ...
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter is fighting for a spot in the NBA Finals against the mighty Golden State Warriors. He’s also fighting against what he sees as a dictatorship in his home country of ...
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