Ahmet Yozgatlıgil, who had served as Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology since Jun 22, 2023, was appointed rector of our university by a decree bearing the signature of AKP Chair and President Recep Tayyip ...

In her responses sent from Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison, ETHA news agency reporter Elif Bayburt describes both life behind bars and the state of press freedom in Turkey. Bayburt says she spends her days in ...

My wife wearily turned to me while watching the news. “I’m sick and tired of the United States,” as that man’s face yet again floated on screen and to even more screens. I wanted to ...

Spiros Grammenos is a musician in Greece who combines the entehno tradition with the energy of punk and ska. He places satire, irony, and social criticism at the center of his music. As a storyteller ...

One of the emblematic figures of the LGBTI+ movement, Marsha P. Johnson, once said in an interview, “Because if everyone, without exception, does not have a right, then no one has it.” Johnson went down ...

The law on publicly spreading misleading information (TCK 217/A), passed by parliament in 2022 with assurances it would not be used against journalists, has become an increasingly frequent tool in investigations and lawsuits against members ...

Lawyers and human rights defenders held a press conference at the İstanbul Bar Association cultural center to demand the release of 84 people arrested in operations targeting the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP). On ...

An İstanbul court sentenced four police officers to six years in prison each for destroying official documents in the retrial concerning the death of Onur Yaser Can. Can died by suicide in 2010 following allegations ...

Kurdish journalist Ruşen Takva’s X account has been blocked four times in the past year. He’s currently on his fifth and it’s unclear how long it’ll be until that one could be blocked too. Unfortunately ...

A new report reveals that deep poverty, systemic discrimination, and registration hurdles are preventing one-third of Turkish and Syrian Dom and Abdal children in Antep, southeastern Turkey, from regularly attending school. Doms and Abdals are ...