Turkey seeks way to sway UEFA over police at games
The Turkish government is mulling ways to convince UEFA over the authorization of police officers to oversee the security at games
Male students wear skirts to protest ban in Turkey’s Antalya
A small group of male high school students wore skirts in protest at a ban on girls wearing skirts yesterday
Mission Journal: Why Turkey matters – Blog
Committee to Protect Journalists ? Turkey is hardly a press freedom paradise, but what makes the country so exciting for journalists is the amount of news it generates on any given day. The domestic story is huge, with near-daily street protests, the booming economy beginning to
18 PKK members escape from prison via tunnel in eastern Turkey
Some 18 inmates that were reportedly members of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) have escaped from a prison
Gendarmerie captures 17 PKK member fugitives, still searching for one
Seventeen of the 18 inmates who tunneled out of a prison in the eastern province of Bingöl have been captured
A compilation made by bianet revealed that male perpetrators left 16 women and 3 men dead, 18 raped, 31 women, 4 men and 1 child injured and 11 sexually harassed in August 2012. Most male violence related cases were reported from Istanbul.
Court releases 17 arrested in KCK case in Mardin
A local court in southeastern Turkey released 17 arrested suspects in a trial over membership of the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK)
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