Christians celebrate Palm Sunday in Kurdish regions of Syria, Turkey, Iraq
Christian communities across Syria, Turkey and Iraq came together to celebrate Palm Sunday on 28 April. The festival commemorates the ...
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May Day preparations underway across Turkey despite restrictions
May Day preparations are underway across Turkey, as workers and unions gear up for rallies and demonstrations despite restrictions imposed ...
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Staggering 32,000 ‘preventable’ workplace deaths since AKP came to power in Turkey: opposition MP
Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a member of parliament for Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), revealed that approximately 32,000 workers have ...
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Why May Day? Why Taksim?
Ertuğrul Mavioğlu May Day, known as International Workers' Day, has always been met with inconsistent, hypocritical, and ultimately oppressive policies ...
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Turkish gov’t maintains ban on May Day celebrations at Taksim despite court ruling
Despite a recent Constitutional Court ruling that overturned bans on public gatherings, the Turkish government announced that May Day celebrations ...
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Fear of impunity grows as prosecutor requests acquittal for police officers in Tahir Elçi case
The prosecutor in the case of Tahir Elçi, a prominent Kurdish lawyer and expert in human rights assassinated in 2015, ...
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Champion Kurdish team Amedspor reaches First League after decade-long racism battle
Kurdish football team Amedspor was crowned champion of the Turkish Football Federation’s Second League on Sunday after a competitive season, ...
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Turkey’s top human rights lawyer exposes systematic torture in Turkey’s prisons as state policy
Torture is a state policy in Turkey, systematically applied and deeply ingrained in detention and interrogation practices, particularly against political ...
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Turkish prisons under scrutiny: 2022-2023 report reveals systematic human rights violations
The "2022-2023 Prison Rights Violations Report" highlights the severe and systematic human rights abuses in Turkish prisons, reflecting a disturbing ...
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Calls intensify for release of elderly Kurdish prisoner in Turkey
Human rights advocates have called for the immediate release of Makbule Özer, an 82-year-old Kurdish woman detained again in Turkey ...
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