Turkey’s Academics Unwillingly Embrace Silence
The day after Turkey voted in a referendum to enact a Venezuelan-style presidential system in mid-April, Professor Yasemin Gursoy returned to her post-graduate class at an Istanbul…
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Young Turkish Reporter’s Worst Fear Comes True Behind Bars
“I have been jailed for 9 months, crying all the time, expecting justice. I just want to believe that it can prevail...”
Those were the last words from Aysenur Parildak’s defense before…
Disrobed And Jailed, Turkey’s Judges Suffer In Dark
A frail man in a black tracksuit with sparse hair next to a frighteningly big V-shape surgery scar on his head, looking down in evident exhaustion... That can hardly be how Ibrahim Ethem…
Contested Referendum Pushes Turkey Into Uncertain Future
As protesters walked past the bookshop he runs in Besiktas, a female customer asked for a book, any book, on how to be happy. Passing one on ways to avoid stress, the bookseller replied, “I…
For Turkey’s Dismissed Public Workers, Even Schools Are Off Limits
Dr. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu was working at a hospital in Kocaeli, northwestern Turkey, until he was suspended by the Governor’s Office in October last year. Three months later, he was…
Critics Suspect Turkey’s Regime Change Vote Will Be Rigged
In a buzzing shopping mall just outside Istanbul overlooking the busy Ankara highway decorated with gigantic ‘Yes’ signs, granddaughter of one of Turkey’s best-known thespians sips her…