Corruption-Covering Reporters in Turkey Fear Layoff: Research
By ELIF AKGÜL BIA News Desk Transparency International (TI) and Center For Social Research and Education (TAREM) released their preliminary results of a research on [more >>>]
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Turkey offers cash rewards for marrying early
By ZÜLFIKAR DOĞAN* (Contributor, Turkish Pulse) Al Monitor The latest promises of financial incentives by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Prime Minister [more >>>]
Turkey: PEN talks to writer Sevan Nişanyan
PEN International Sevan Nişanyan is facing imprisonment for ‘denigrating religious values’ Sevan Nişanyan is a writer, linguist, hotelier and public intellectual from Turkey’s Armenian minority, [more >>>]
The test the ECtHR faces
By EREN KESKIN Agos Human rights activist and lawyer Eren Keskin has assessed the Perinçek v. Switzerland case heard at the European Court of Human [more >>>]
ECHR Finds Kurdish Newspaper Right After 10 Years
BIA News Desk The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Turkey guilty of punishing former owner and editor of the daily newspaper Ülkede Özgür [more >>>]
IHD: 3,840 Detentions, 669 Arrests in Kurdish Cities
BIA News Desk Turkey’s Human Right Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Province Branch released an annual report on the human right violations in the southeastern Kurdish cities, [more >>>]
Turkey’s Politics of Fatigue
By ELIF SHAFAK* The New York Times LONDON — Before a recent interview in Istanbul, I was talking to the journalist about Turkish politics. After [more >>>]
Eren Keskin Sentenced to 10 Months Due to Article 301
BIA News Desk Çerkezköy 1st Assize Court convicted human rights advocate Eren Keskin to 10 months of prison due to Article 301 when she said [more >>>]
Turkey’s Awkward Place in the Paris March
By KARL VICK* Time Not only does its president hate cartoonists, but a terror suspect passed through it to get to Syria last week Prominent [more >>>]
How foreign journalists become ‘spies’ in Turkey
By FEHIM TAŞTEKIN* Al MonitorBack in the days when Turkey was touted as a model for the Muslim world, boasting a booming economy despite the [more >>>]