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Purge victim not allowed to obtain passport despite recommendation by ombudsman

October 15, 2021

Sait Güney, one of the more than 130,000 civil servants who were removed from their jobs as part of a purge carried out following...

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Complaints about public institutions in Turkey surged by 330 pct in 2020

February 9, 2021

The Turkish Ombudsman, which looks into complaints regarding the delivery of public services in the country, received more than 90,000 complaints in 2020, a...

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Pro-gov’t Hürriyet fires its ombudsman for criticizing daily’s reporting

March 3, 2019

Pro-government Hürriyet daily ombudsman Faruk Bildirici was fired on Sunday by management after he refused to stop criticizing the newspaper’s mistakes in reporting and...