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State suppression of the Kurdish language is escalating in Turkey

Cevheri Güven Recent moves by the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeting the Kurdish language have signaled a new wave of crackdowns on Kurds...

Turkish arms exports to Azerbaijan exploded before Nagorno-Karabakh clashes

Turkey's defense exports to Azerbaijan had sextupled over the course of nine months in 2020, before the Azerbaijani army engaged with Armenian forces over...

German police conduct raids on firm suspected of exporting spyware to Turkey

German police have carried out raids on 15 properties with links to the Munich-based surveillance software firm FinFisher over allegations that the firm illegally...

Lower Turkish court unlawfully defies top court’s decision to retry former lawmaker

A lower court on Tuesday resisted implementing a ruling by Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM), which in September had ordered a retrial of Enis Berberoğlu,...

District governor bans first Kurdish rendition of Italian theatre play in Istanbul

A district governor in İstanbul on Tuesday banned the performance of a Kurdish-language rendition of an Italian play at the state-owned Istanbul City Theatre, which...

Turkish gov’t accuses top court member of hinting at coup d‘état

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Ömer Çelik on Wednesday slammed a Constitutional Court (AYM) member for a tweet showing the court building’s...

Podcasts are the reason Ankara is targeting Spotify, pundit says

The audio streaming platform Spotify, which faces a ban in Turkey if it does not abide by a government notice to submit a license...

Journalists arrested for reports on tortured villagers subjected to ill-treatment in prison, says lawyer

Two of four journalists who were arrested on Friday after they reported on a pair of villagers allegedly tortured and thrown from a military...

105 active duty soldiers among 167 sought in post-coup purge

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 167 people, at least 105 of whom are soldiers on active duty, in two separate investigations over...

23 die from alcohol poisoning after passage of law banning sale of ethyl alcohol for home use

Twenty-three people in Turkey have died from alcohol poisoning since a new regulation entered into effect on October 1 banning the sale of ethyl...

Hatay forest fires spark claims of arson for mine construction

Following recent forest fires in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hatay, critics have voiced allegations of arson, in reference to the ruling party’s profit-seeking mentality. A...

Majority-Kurdish town denied Internet access for a year for ‘security reasons’

Nusaybin, a predominantly Kurdish town in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin, has been suffering from restricted Internet access since a Turkish military operation in Syria...

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