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Ayse Celik (centre), a teacher who called a Turkish radio show in 2016 and said of her country’s military clampdown in the south: ‘Don’t let children die. Don’t let mothers cry’ TEACHER Ayse Celik was ...
Turkey is ranked 157th out of 180 countries ranked by Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) on its 2019 World Press Freedom Index , due to having the highest number of journalists behind bars and escalating government pressure on ...
President Erdogan regularly vilifies journalists as “terrorists” while stoking fears of terrorism among his citizens. He frequently eschews facts and voices conspiracy theories. The aim of this article is to explore what role can the ...
The US State Department has added a new indicator to its travel advisories to flag the high risk of kidnapping in 35 countries around the world, including Turkey and many Middle Eastern and African nations. ...
Hamdi Akın İpek: ‘The rule of law in Turkey has collapsed.’ Photograph: Sam Tobin/PA High court upholds ruling that case against Hamdi Akın İpek was politically motivated Turkey has failed in a final attempt to ...
When Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu meets U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington today, they will have plenty to talk about: Syria and the Middle East, Turkey’s plans to buy a Russian air-defense system, the murder ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated his threats against mayoral candidates from opposition parties on Thursday, saying the government is holding on to criminal records for action against some of ...
Police try to disperse a march marking International Women’s Day in Istanbul, Turkey, March 8, 2019. The first feminist night march in Turkey was held on International Women’s Day 2003 in Taksim. Irem Afsin, ...
The Turkish city of Diyarbakir, dubbed the country’s Kurdish capital, is a strong support base for the pro-Kurdish HDP party. But after the last election, more than 90% of HDP mayors were replaced by technocrats, ...
By Selahattin Demirtas Selahattin Demirtas is an ex-member of the Turkish parliament and a former co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party of Turkey. He is imprisoned in Edirne High Security Prison. Turkey’s recent local elections on March 31 ...