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PHOTO: Nomad Capitalist website. An Ankara court has denied an objection to a travel ban imposed on an academic who was fired from his university job over the alleged dissemination of terrorist propaganda, the Duvar ...
Prominent Kurdish folk singer Ferhat Tunç on Monday announced on Twitter that he was leaving Turkey due to government harassment and oppression. “They (authorities) were not satisfied with the prison sentence; they started several new investigations and ...
According to Ministry of Justice statistics, the total number of Turkish citizens who have faced investigation since July 2016 over links to the faith-based Gülen movement on accusations coup involvement and terrorism exceeded half a ...
An inside view from the Turkey’s biggest court house, Çağlayan. PHOTO: Hürriyet According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2019 released on Thursday, Turkey ranks 109th among 126 countries in adherence to ...
Ömer Faruk Arsoy, a computer technician who used to work at a state hospital in the southern Turkish province of Mersin but was removed from his job by a government decree in September 2016, has ...
Black vans has become the symbols of the abduction and disappearance in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown targeting the Gülen movement. Fatma Betül Zeybek, the wife of Turkish national Salih Zeybek, has said her husband was abducted ...
A girl flashes the victory sign as holding a flag bearing the logo of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as Turkish Kurds gather during Newroz celebrations for the new year in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on March ...
Between a rock and a hard place. A Turkish man rides a bicycle past a poster of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. (AFP) Regardless of the outcome of Turkey’s local elections March ...
PHOTO: Artı Gerçek Merve Demirel, whose apparent sexual harassment by a police officer last weekend in Ankara was captured on camera, said on Friday she is concerned about her and her family’s safety after the ...
By Ergun Babahan Turkey is paying a high price for the fact that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grew up in what was a poor peripheral part of Istanbul and his Islamist ruling Justice and Development ...