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Ä°stanbul police disperse pride march with pepper spray, rubber bullets

Turkish police on Sunday disrupted an LGBTI+ pride march in İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district, dispersing the crowd with pepper spray and rubber bullets, according to the BBC...

Pregnant, ailing women among 4 arrested in Turkey’s Osmaniye due to Gülen links

A pregnant woman and another woman suffering from a heart problem were among four women arrested in the southern Turkish province of Osmaniye on terrorism charges...

Not surprising that people commit suicide behind bars, says man abducted, tortured by Turkish intelligence

Zabit KiÅŸi, who disappeared for more than a hundred days after he was reportedly turned over by Kazakhstan to Turkish intelligence and put on a plane...

[ANALYSIS] What is Sunday’s İstanbul election all about?

The latest polls show that the opposition’s candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, will probably be the winner of Sunday’s İstanbul mayoral election. It will be the second time,...

Kurdish airport worker commits suicide over social exclusion due to ethnic roots

A Kurdish security guard working at Ä°stanbul Airport committed suicide on Monday evening, jumping from an elevated area in an airport terminal and indicating the social exclusion...

Purge victim teacher takes own life in Denizli

Canan Ş., one of the thousands of teachers who were fired by the Turkish government due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide...

Turkey’s red meat imports jumped by 233 percent in 2018: report

Turkey’s imports of red meat increased by 233 percent in 2018, while its red meat production dropped significantly, according to a report from the country’s Meat...

Turkish university student sentenced to 7.5 years over Gülen links

Muhammed Harun Bulut, a Turkish university student in Adana province, on Thursday was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for membership in the faith-based...

Detention warrants issued for 56 on charges of restructuring Gülen-linked education activities

The chief public prosecutor’s office in the southern Turkish province of Adana has issued detention warrants for 56 people on accusations that they were restructuring educational activities...

Turkish labor watchdog reports death of 26 underage workers in 5 months

Turkey’s Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) has said at least 26 underage workers died in work-related accidents in Turkey in the first five months of...

Turkey releases 110,000 tons of plastic waste into Mediterranean every year: report

Turkey is responsible for 110,000 tons of plastic waste that goes into the Mediterranean Sea every year, according to a new World Wide Fund for Nature...

[OPINION] Why is Russia the winner in the S-400 crisis?

Mehmet Efe Çaman You do not have to be a weapons expert to understand that the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles that will be delivered and stationed somewhere...

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