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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 ...
Columbia University has rescheduled a panel event focused on the collapse of the rule of law in Turkey for this Friday, after having abruptly called off the event earlier this month. Panelists suspected that the previous event was canceled ...
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the government’s plan to extend the state of emergency imposed after the 2016 coup attempt for another three months, in Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 14, 2018. Credit: Osman Orsal/Reuters For a ...
The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its annual World Press Freedom Index. Ranking 157th in last year’s index, Turkey has again ranked 157th among 180 countries in the 2019 Press Freedom Index of the RSF. While ...
“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 ...