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A gendarmerie commander had given a pep talk to the Afyonspor players, telling them to "crush Amedspor" after a PKK attack in Mersin.

The decision was taken because of Mayor Özcan's sexist remarks about a woman who he said had wanted help for test-tube baby treatment.

Municipal officials in the capital city ask foreign citizens to pay for time higher "deposit fees" for first subscriptions, but there are no written instructions for such a practice, said a union head.

European leaders' discrimination dehumanizes the displacement experiences of non-European refugees. The core principle of asylum must be based on universal human rights, not location proximity, religion, or ethnic identity of displaced people.

Many concerts, theater plays, and other events in Kurdish have been banned in the last three years. Artists and musicians have difficulties finding places to organize events.

Whenever I think about the response of Western media against non-European displaced people, I remember the Hungarian camerawoman, Petra Laszlo, who kicked a Syrian father who was holding his child at the Serbian border in 2015. This kick reflects the double standard of mass media coverage against non-European displaced people.

Vice Minister of Interior Çataklı has announced that the Immigration Authority of Turkey will file a criminal complaint against Victory Party Chair Özdağ, Sinan Oğan and Prof. Bengi Başer over their remarks marking the Syrian refugees as targets.

An investigation has been launched against the teachers who posed for the camera while making gestures in front of a Kurdish road sign in Erzurum’s Karayazı.

We have spoken with rights advocates and refugees about growing anti-refugee sentiments.

The number of those who learn their mother language to get over the historical trauma and for emancipation has been on the increase among Sámis, an indigenous people in Scandinavia. What does this experience mean for the future of Kurdish?

The İstanbul Foundation For Culture & Arts has released a report examining gender-based discrimination in the sector.

The high percentage of people wanting a powerful leader does not necessarily reflect an authoritarian tendency, and might be caused by the lack of inclusive institutions, according to the study.