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  Pro-government business leader pleased with refugee workers as 'locals snub hard labor jobs'

  Last week, the interior minister said businesspeople who "exploit refugees" would be the first to object to their repatriation.
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  Charged with 'espionage,' DEVA Party's Metin Gürcan released after five months under arrest

  Gürcan was arrested because of his meetings with diplomats from Spain and Italy. The politician denies providing confidential information to foreign countries.
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  PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION Prisoner not released despite completing sentence

  Dilan Oybaş is one of the 116 prisoners who are kept behind bars based on a new regulation, HDP deputy Kılıç-Koçyiğit has said.
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  Babacan says his rally banned by 'altering document after signature'

  The governor initially deemed their rally "appropriate" but later changed the document he had signed, according to the DEVA Party leader.
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  CLIMATE CRISIS Population of harmful insect species increases in İstanbul, experts warn

  Pine processionary moth caterpillars have been migrating to the north due to global warming and are now frequently spotted in İstanbul.
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  Midnight music ban pushed to 1 a.m.

  Introduced as a "coronavirus measure," the music ban after midnight has remained in place, although almost all other measures have been lifted.
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  Turkey reports 1,858 new coronavirus cases, seven deaths in a day

  More than 1,500 people recovered from the disease in 24 hours, according to the ministry.
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  Is there a connection between Turkey's economic crisis and refugees?

  According to experts, refugees are far from being the cause of the economic crisis in Turkey. As for unemployment, they are not an alternative to local ...
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  Journalist Nadire Mater wins 'press card' lawsuit against Presidency Communications Directorate

  "Dozens of lawsuits were filed because press cards were not issued to journalists who are not considered 'favorable.' This case is one of them," said Mater's ...
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  FINAL VERDICT Top administrative court annuls ban on filming police officers during protests

  The Council of State has rejected the appeals of the Minister of Interior and General Director of Security and annulled the ban
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  Court turns down appeal against arrest of Gezi convicts

  The presiding judge is known for his controversial decisions in political cases.
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  Outrage in Turkey's 'student city' after governor bans music festival for no reason

  The festival was going to be the largest event in Eskişehir since the start of the pandemic. Thousands of people tweeted under the hashtag "Don't touch ...
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  Eighty-year-old couple in Van jailed for ‘aiding an illegal organization’

  A couple aged 79 and 80 were sent to jail after their sentences were confirmed by the court of appeal.
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  Nine-year-old child dies after being shot in head near Turkey-Syria border

  “The state is obliged to provide safe places to live for children,” said the Urfa Bar Association about the death of the child.
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  Kılıçdaroğlu slams government for 'admitting exploitation of refugees'

  The main opposition leader slammed the interior minister over his remarks that businesspeople "exploit Syrians in their factories" and they would be the first to rise ...
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  Court acquits two children detained during İstanbul Pride March

  So far, three of the six cases that were opened against 40 out of the 47 people who had been detained during the 2021 İstanbul Pride ...
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  Erdoğan: Turkey to introduce 'master and protégé' system in judiciary

  Assistant judges and assistant prosecutors will be appointed soon, the president has said.
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  TurkStat: Turkey’s unemployment rate stands at 11.5 percent

  According to official figures, the narrowly defined number of unemployment became 3 million 894 thousand in March.
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  Turkey sets up 'crisis desk' for kidnapped citizens in Haiti

  A passenger bus with at least eight citizens of Turkey was kidnapped on Sunday.
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  ‘Turkey among countries that offer cheapest citizenship’

  In many countries around the world, citizenship is offered through certain investment programs. Turkey is among the few countries where citizenship can be obtained cheaply.
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  US dollar surpasses 15 against Turkish lira

  The dollar/lira exchange rate has reached the highest level since December.
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  In protest of 8 convictions in Gezi trial, 888 people file 'report themselves' to prosecutors

  "Whatever they said or did during Gezi, we did the same," said 888 citizens.
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  Turkey reports 1,542 new coronavirus cases, eight deaths in a day

  Some 1,463 people recovered from the disease in 24 hours, according to the ministry.
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  GEZİ FAMILIES SPEAK OUT 'The impunity of the murderers killed our sense of justice'

  "They killed our brother. The pain of this was already something that broke and saddened us already; the impunity of the killers was a situation that ...
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  Opposition deputy draws 'migration map' of İstanbul

  Number of refugees in the metropolis may be much higher than official figures, says CHP deputy Gürsel Tekin.
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  Interior Ministry: Turkey hosts 5.5 million foreigners, 'not all of them refugees'

  "Not every dark-skinned person is a refugee," the deputy minister has warned, noting that some four and a half million tourist from the Middle East and ...
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  Erdoğan: Turkey will never kick out Syrian refugees

  The president's statement came a week after he announced a housing project for the "voluntary return" of about a million refugees to Syria.
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  Richest 20 percent in Turkey had nearly half of total income in 2021, shows TurkStat data

  The country's Gini coefficient stood at 0.410 in the last year while he relative poverty rate and severe material deprivation rate decreased compared to the previous ...
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  Message from Gezi prisoners: 'Either hatred and arrogance or fraternity and freedom will prevail'

  "We will defend justice, fraternity, conscience, freedom, and, of course," says the message from the eight prisoners.
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  NO PESTICIDES ON MY PLATE PLATFORM ‘What happened to the food that contains agricultural pesticides?’

  “No Pesticides on My Plate Platform” asked about the usage of the pesticides in food products
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  Nearly 1,900 flamingo chicks hatched in Turkey's Lake Tuz in 2021

  The flamingo population breeding in Turkey constitutes nearly 34 percent of the entire flamingo population in Europe, according to the ministry.
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  First Sunday Mass at Armenian church in Diyarbakır after seven years

  The Sunday Service was held at the Surp Giragos Church in Diyarbakır.
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  Ill prisoner catches Covid twice

  HDP deputy Abdullah Koç has submitted a parliamentary question about the situation of ill prisoner Suat Oğuz.
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  'Hrant Dink: Here and Now" exhibition opens in Yerevan

  The exhibition offers visitors to "understand Dink's dreams, language, the values such as dialogue and coexistence," the Hrant Dink Foundation has said.
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  Letter from jailed Kurdish politician Leyla Güven for Mother’s Day

  “You have always said the same… ‘We want peace’.” Leyla Güven wrote from prison to Peace Mothers.
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  Turkey reports 1,480 new coronavirus cases, nine deaths in a day

  More than 1,500 people recovered from the disease in a day, according to ministry data.
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  Warming cold-cases with Mannina

  Christine Mannina, after 26 years in law enforcement as a homicide detective in class and race divided Indianapolis' black, low-income suburbia, speaks to bianet on her ...
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  WEEKLY ROUNDUP Higher inflation for the poor, controversy in politics

  Inflation rate at two-decade high • Police officer threatened to shoot HDP deputy • İmamoğlu draws ire after photo with formerly pro-Erdoğan journalists • Far-right leader ...