Teenagers in Izmir, western Turkey. Photograph: Bradley Secker/The Guardian Young people likely to challenge Islam and see themselves as less religious than previous generations Twenty-two-year old Esra, from Mersin, is even more bored than ...
Turkish authorities detained the mayors of five municipalities in Kurdish-majority areas on Monday as part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party’s co-leader said, according to Reuters. Mithat ...
Ahmet Burhan Ataç, a stage four cancer patient, was on Friday able to see his jailed father for five hours after an intense social media campaign calling on the Turkish government to release the father ...