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Wikipedia’s entry in Turkish for “vagina” has been censored. However, both service provider, telecommunication authorities and service providers union deny the situation, leaving the actor and reason of the censorship as mystery.
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Columnist Hakan Demir has acquitted from charges related to insulting then-PM Erdoğan when he wrote a tweet during Gezi Resistance in 2013.
The human bones that have been found in a cesspool in the southeastern province of Mardin’s Kızıltepe district belong to an 18-year-old man who went missing in 1995 under detention
A court in Eskişehir has acquitted 173 people who were tried for attending last year’s Gezi Park protests, on the grounds that they had used their right to free expression.
Ceyda Sungur faces a faculty investigation for hanging union posters calling for a strike
The people of Cuba, not a foreign leader, decide when a mosque will be built,’ an international friendship association says
The White Palace in Ankara has 1.6m square feet of floorspace, and features thousands of trees imported from Italy at a cost of up to $10,000 each; the taxpayer-footed electricity bill from the palace will run $313K/month. Read the rest
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