Based upon her own experiences, academic Zeynep Kıvılcım compares the academia in Germany and Turkey. She points out that there is a firm stand against the system in Turkey, while the universities in ...

Organized to strengthen the ties between the local media and NGOs in Mersin, the "Ecology Journalism Project" roundtable meeting opened with the speech of Nazan Özcan from Atölye BİA/bianet. Saying ...

We asked people in the streets of Eminönü, central Istanbul, what they thought about Barack Obama’s election. The answers were cautiously optimistic. However, there seemed to be agreement that Barack ...

Among those 81 provinces, 30 are called "metropolitan municipalities," and the other 51 are called city municipalities. The provinces which have at least three district municipalities or at least two ...

"Among the violations happening in this period, especially police interventions, access bans, Parliamentary summaries, posters being taken down and prosecutions were observed to have continued.

If Russia and Ukraine agree in their next meeting in İstanbul, a UN plan to open a "grain corridor" can be implemented, Çavuşoğlu has said. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has denied the ...

IPS Communication Foundation / bianet received European Union financial support for the "Election Journalism Monitoring Guide" project in May 2023 under the Etkiniz EU program. Within the scope of ...

According to a recent survey by Avrasya Research company, 48.1 percent of respondents are of the opinion that the economy will recover if the government changes. The respondents were also asked, "Will ...

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced a significant drug bust during Narkogüç operations, revealing that 51 kilograms and 750 grams of cocaine were seized from the Liberian-flagged dry cargo ship, ...

As the coronavirus measures are being gradually lifted with new rules, people returned to parks and recreation areas on the weekend. This was the first weekend after the ban on recreation areas was ...

GAP Gündemi newspaper owner Polat was attacked by a group of people on his way home from work on Monday. The Turkish Journalists Association condemned the assault. Polat, at the same time AKP deputy ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spoken on Turkey's possible intervention in northern Syria at the 11th Ambassadors' Conference at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. "What we experienced in Syria ...