More than 11,000 teachers suspended over PKK links
Hurriyet Daily News More than 11,000 teachers have been suspended over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkey’s Education Ministry announced on [more >>>]
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Why Turkey’s Gulenist purge is going way too far
By MUSTAFA AKYOL* Al Monitor Since July 15, when a military coup attempt shook the nation, Turkey has been going through major upheaval. With the [more >>>]
Civil society leaders appeal to Jagland ahead of Azerbaijan referendum
Human Rights House On the 4th of September, several Azerbaijani civil society leaders, including former political prisoners that have worked closely with HRHF, appealed to [more >>>]
First Crisis Center for Domestic Violence Victims Opens in Tbilisi
By THEA MORISSON Georgia Today TBILISI – Georgia’s Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, UN Women and Swedish Development Agency opened the first crisis [more >>>]
EMDS’ Opinion on the 26 September Referendum and the Amendments to the Azerbaijan’s Constitution
Civil Society Forum, Eastern Partnership On 26 September 2016 Azerbaijan will hold a referendum which aims to amend its Constitution. The referendum was approved by [more >>>]
What’s next for Turkey’s journalists following post-coup crackdown?
By CENGIZ ÇANDAR* Al Monitor Aug. 30 is the date of the decisive victory won against the invading Greek force in 1922 that led to [more >>>]
Composition Of New Abkhaz Government Unlikely To Mollify Opposition
By LIZ FULLER RFE/RL Raul Khajimba, the de facto president of Georgia’s breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, made several further appointments last week to a new [more >>>]
‘New Wave of Reprisals’ Against Azerbaijani Opposition Party
By LIZ FULLER RFE/RL Having failed to persuade key defendants in the so-called “Nardaran trial” to implicate Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (AHCP) Chairman Ali Kerimli [more >>>]
7 people detained in Georgia in gas pipeline plot
By Associated Press The Washington Post TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia’s intelligence agency says it has detained seven people suspected of plotting an attack on a [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: Renewed human rights crackdown ahead of referendum
By Index on Censorship indexoncensorship.org 18 August 2016. Less than six weeks ahead of a constitutional referendum, Azerbaijani authorities have unleashed a new wave of [more >>>]