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PISA director warns Turkey about changes in its education system

Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) Director Andreas Schleicher warned Turkey on Thursday about changes to the education system, saying educators must be well...

Turkey’s top judicial body dismisses 39 more judges, prosecutors over Gülen links

Turkey's top judicial body, the Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), on Thursday dismissed 39 judges and public prosecutors over alleged links to the...

Pro-government magazine deletes provocative cartoon upon public outcry

Pro-government satirical magazine Misvak has removed a cartoon depicting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ultranationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli steering...

PACE commission rejects Turkey’s ‘insufficient’ judge nominees for ECtHR

A commission in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for selecting judges for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has...

Imprisoned pro-Kurdish HDP leaders nominated for EP’s Sakharov Prize

Imprisoned pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ have been nominated for the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought...

34 suspects get 4 life sentences for alleged assassination of Erdoğan

A court in the Aegean province of Muğla on Wednesday sentenced 34 suspects to four aggravated life sentences each in the trial of soldiers...

19 more military members detained over Gülen links

Nineteen military personnel were detained on Thursday across Turkey as part of a Trabzon-based operation targeting alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkey’s...

Detention warrants issued for 133 ministry staff members over Gülen links

Detention warrants have been issued for 133 former and current staff members of the Finance and Labor and Social Security ministries over the use...

Jailed journalist Alpay: They know we have been wronged

Dr. Şahin Alpay, one of 280 journalists currently in Turkish prisons, expressed thanks to politicians and local and foreign colleagues who have objected to...

[VIDEO] Police officer arrested after beating up woman on street in Antalya

One of the two police officers who beat up a woman and dragged by her hair on a street in the southern province of...

Human rights NGOs: Lawyer tortured, threatened with rape of family members

The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) held a press conference on Tuesday regarding allegations of the torture...

Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputy Konca of parliamentary status

The Turkish Parliament has stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca of her parliamentary status. According to the T24 website, Konca’s parliamentary...

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