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Veli Saçılık Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest in Ankara against the Turkish government’s removal from office ...
Turkish rappers on Friday released two new songs criticizing the Turkish government and urging the public, especially young people, to raise their voices against political and social injustice as well as human and animal rights ...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 20,474 people in Turkey have been investigated due to their messages on social media, the Gazete Duvar news website reported on Friday. The minister’s ...
ANKARA: Turkey’s highest court rejected appeals on Friday from two prominent journalists jailed over links to the failed coup in 2016, state media reported. The Constitutional Court said the rights of Nazli Ilicak, 74, and ...
The collapse of the rule of law affects all Turkish citizens, especially those of Kurdish origin. Repression intensified after a ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) collapsed in mid-2015, and accelerated after the failed ...
A Turkish woman who protested the sexual assault of a 5-year-old in İstanbul was briefly detained, the Etkin news agency reported on Wednesday. Yasemin Babat Kayan was taken into custody while holding a sit-in in ...
For four months, Turkish author Asli Erdogan sat behind bars in an Istanbul prison. Now living in exile, she spoke to DW about the political situation in her homeland; and the long-term trauma inflicted by ...
Independent of the results in Istanbul, many see the 31 March local polls as a turning point for Turkey. Let’s have a close look. Firstly, the bloc opposing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ...
A Turkish teenager who appeared on a live TV broadcast on the occasion of Turkey’s National Sovereignty and Children’s Day said her future dream was to become a German citizen after she studies medicine in ...
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“Bad economic management, among others, brought him [Erdoğan] to power … It may remove him power, too.” — International banker who asked not to be named. Ironically, the man who could recharge the machine called ...