In the mean time, Büyükada Orphanage goes back to real owners….

It is midnight on the border between Turkey and Greece. Special teams on rotation at the border are hypersensitive and on the look out for enemies they pursue with the help of thermal cameras.

Problems with discrimination and hate speech are continuing within Turkey?s media industry because of a lack of suitable legislation, according to a university professor.

There is a small photo accompanying a news story on His All Holiness Bartholomew as he stands between two Muslim clerics who appear in their religious clothes.

Milliyet newspaper employees Durukan and Çakkalkurt were acquitted of charges of “spreading propaganda for an illegal organization” on the grounds of one of their news items and so were Günlük daily officials Koçali and Pekgöz who were tried for the same reason.

By majority vote, RTÜK imposed a heavy monetary fine to the news channel CNN Türk on the grounds of a statement made by Kurdish politician Özçelik in the program “What’s going on”. He had described the militant PKK as a “political movement”.

Istanbul?s Geoaktif Culture and Activism Center is now providing classes in six Anatolian languages, ranging from Armenian to Laz. The classes, a first for Turkey, are attracting interest from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, says Cemal Atila, the center?s founder, who adds the lessons are testament to a changing Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey – A lawyer says Turkey’s government has complied with a European Court of Human Rights ruling and returned a 19th-century orphanage to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, the centre of Orthodox Christianity around the world.

When we speak about the ?orphanage for boys,? we are not talking about an abandoned institution, harassed by destructive nationalism and legal strife, but also an historic structure. The Greek orphanage, situated on the Hristo Hill of Büyükada — or Pringipo as it was called in Greek — the major member of the Princes? Islands, is arguably the second largest and oldest wooden structure in the world and unique in Europe.

Turkish Armenians sue Turkey over belated patriarch election

Le kurde une langue inconnue des juges du tribunal de Diyarbakir et ? des manuels scolaires français

from YOL (routes de Turquie et d’ailleurs) by anne

Türkler Murder Trial Closed by Prescription after 26 Years

Renowned Turkish and Kurdish writers, journalists, academics and artists initiated a signature campaign to protest the death threat voiced by an armed wing of the PKK against Kurdish politician Orhan Miroğlu.