Turkish police to mother “Am I the one who killed your son? Oh well, it’s a good thing I did then.”
Gülsüm Elvan, the mother of 15-year-old young boy Berkin Elvan who was targeted and shot with a gas canister by ...
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Turkish government leaves Dersim forest fires raging unchecked for 12 whole days without intervention
As the terrifying spread of the forest fires raging in Turkey's southeastern province of Dersim (Tunceli) has been documented by ...
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Abandoned Greek Orthodox orphanage on the island of Büyükada finally to be restored
Despite calls from various community organisations the state took no action for years, and the Büyükada Greek Orthodox orphanage has ...
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Mother of political prisoner: Resistance will break the isolation policy
The hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey against the isolation of Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, ...
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Dersim, Turkey: Forest fire resulting from military operations rages for 13 days before the authorities finally intervene
A forest fire that broke out as a result of a military operation in the countryside of Hozat district in ...
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Five refugees thrown into River Meriç by Turkish soldiers drown in the river says eye witness
A Syrian man, one of a group of 150 mainly Syrian refugees who crossed the River Meriç from Turkey into ...
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Twenty years on Assyrian families return from Belgium to their villages in Şırnak
Village burnings and forced evacuations were a common policy of Turkey in the 1990s during the fighting between the Kurdistan ...
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Germany’s Telepolis newspaper: Christians under threat in Tell Tamr, Syria
Germany's Telepolis newspaper is carrying news about the Turkish operations into Northern Syria and its attacks against the Christian community ...
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Turkey: In last six years 38,581 people prosecuted for insulting President Erdoğan
Gülizar Biçer Karaca, opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) MP for Denizli, has prepared a report on charges pressed for "insulting ...
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When is a war not a war? – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn If artillery hits a village and there is no international media there to record it, does it count ...
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