20.8 C
Frankfurt am Main
- Advertisement -spot_img

AUTHOR NAME

Turkish Minute

9357 POSTS
0 COMMENTS

Turkey marks Women’s Day amid increasing domestic violence, political imprisonment of women

Thousands of women from all walks of life who were jailed on politically motivated charges in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey...

2 journalists given suspended sentences on charges of revealing state secrets

A Turkish court has handed down suspended sentences to Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news editor for the OdaTV news website, and İsmail Dükel, the...

Court finds Interior Ministry culpable in killing of Kurdish girl in SE Turkey

A Turkish court has found the country’s Interior Ministry culpable in the killing of a 12-year-old Kurdish girl in southeastern Diyarbakır province in 2009 by...

Uighur women march in İstanbul against China camps

Several hundred Muslim Uighur women in Turkey staged an International Women's Day march along the Bosporus on Monday demanding the closure of mass incarceration...

US-convicted banker quits as İstanbul exchange chief

A top Turkish banker convicted in the US of busting sanctions on Iran resigned on Monday as the chief executive of the İstanbul stock...

With heavy hearts, Syrians in Turkey pursue new lives

Some are coping, others struggling, but Syrian refugees in Turkey say they dare not follow their dreams and return home while President Bashar al-Assad...

Military officers among 53 facing detention over alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for a total of 53 people including military officers in separate investigations in İstanbul and Ankara due...

They’re just different: ‘Aris’s Journey’ is breaking Down syndrome taboos

Alin Ozinian An estimated 70,000 people live with Down syndrome in Turkey, and many of them and their families feel marginalized in their everyday lives....

Rights advocate MP petitions top court over jail sentence

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has petitioned Turkey’s Constitutional Court, claiming that his right to freedom of expression was violated...

NBA star Kanter dedicates Trail Blazers’ latest victory to seized Zaman daily

Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the deepening human rights crisis taking place under...

Turkey’s public loss exceeds $590 million under 18-year AKP rule

Public loss in Turkey, which was only around TL 9 million ($1.19 million) in 2002, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came...

Turkey blames bad weather for deadly military helicopter crash

Turkey's defense minister on Friday blamed bad weather for a military helicopter crash that killed 10 soldiers and a senior commander in the...

Latest news

- Advertisement -spot_img