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7 students face up to 3 years in prison over Boğaziçi protests

Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to three years in prison for seven students over a poster depicting Islam's holiest site with LGBT imagery, Agence...

More than 800 Boğaziçi protestors subjected to ill-treatment by police: report

At least 800 people demonstrating against the appointment of a pro-government rector to İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University were subjected to ill-treatment by police officers...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for police violence against journalist in 2015 protest

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the government to pay TL 15,000 ($2,160) in damages to journalist Beyza Kural, who was subjected to ill-treatment by...

Turkish student protests feed anti-Erdoğan anger

Fenced in by riot police, Zeynep Kurbanzade stands with her university classmates in daily protest against the rector picked by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...

Turkish mafia boss calls on controversial rector not to quit despite protests

Notorious Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı has called on Melih Bulu, whose appointment as rector of Boğaziçi University has led to protests, not to...

Twitter removes Turkish far-right leader’s tweet targeting Boğaziçi students

A tweet posted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s far-right ultranationalist ally Devlet Bahçeli that referred to students protesting the appointment of a pro-government...

Erdoğan says jailed businessman Kavala’s wife among ‘provocateurs’ of Boğaziçi protests

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday targeted Ayşe Buğra, the wife of jailed businessman and rights activist Osman Kavala, claiming that she is...

Twitter accounts backing Erdoğan aide’s views on Boğaziçi protests revealed to be fake profiles

A Twitter user has revealed that many accounts sharing posts of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun along with comments supporting his...

EU condemns Turkey’s detention of students, ‘hate speech’

The EU on Thursday decried the detention of university students in Turkey and the use of anti-LGBT "hate speech" after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Boğaziçi’s LGBTI+ student club suspended over Kaaba poster, illegal documents: rector

Melih Bulu, the new rector of İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University whose appointment a month ago by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked ongoing protests, has...

Students detained in ongoing Boğaziçi protests reveal torture, threats by Turkish police

“We were detained around 4:30 p.m. and forced to wait in a bus until 5 a.m. The environment itself was torture. We were...

Pro-gov’t Boğaziçi rector refuses to quit, expects protests to end in 6 months

Melih Bulu, the new rector of İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University whose appointment by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked ongoing protests, stated that he has...

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