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Catalonia OpenDoors Dear friends, We present to you the new project of our association: an annual 4-day event around April 23, Sant Jordi Day, the Day of the Rose and the Book in the Països ...
Up to 90 per cent of saplings planted in Turkey’s mass tree-planting project may be dead, according to Turkey’s agriculture and forestry trade union. Last year, Turkey’s government declared Nov. 11 National Forestation Day. That ...
Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton (Unsplash) A report released every three years by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has ranked Turkish students in 31st place out of 37 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation ...
Nadira Kadirova (L) and AKP deputy Şirin Ünal Twenty-three-year-old Nadira Kadirova, an Uzbek national who was working as a maid in the house of a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy where she was ...
“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 ...
