Well known public intellectuals Baskın Oran, Melek Ulagay, Orhan Alkaya and Gençay Gürsoy appealed for peace in Turkey on the occasion of ‘World Peace Day’ (1 September). They stated that there was a need to unite against the war.Read More
CULTURE
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Seasonal agricultural workers face precarious living and working conditions
Seasonal agricultural workers who travel thousands of kilometers from the cities of Kurdistan face precarious living and working conditions. They often do not have adequate access to safe water or electricity supplies. They have to work and live in unhealthy and unsafe conditions.Read More
The book ‘Berferin’, which includes the latest poetry of Renas Jiyan, a prolific and an important author of Kurdish literature, has just been released.Read More
Turkey’s Medical Association (TTB) has concluded that it is still risky to re-open schools in ‘high speed of transmission’ areas.Read More
HUMAN RIGHTS
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Seasonal agricultural labourers in Turkey continue to suffer from discrimination
The Development Workshop has just published a report focusing upon the plight of “People who were left behind during the pandemic”. It is a participant observation based report that examines the extent to which seasonal (i.e., migrant) agricultural labourers and their children have suffered from discrimination in Turkey.Read More
As reported in The Guardian, an academic study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has arrived at some startling findings. It suggests that black babies in the USA have a greater chance of survival if the hospital doctor in charge of their care is also black.Read More
Technology that can convert salty sea-water into potable water has the potential of transform millions of lives across the globe.Read More
After the Covid-19 outbreak broke out last December in Wuhan, a city in China, it has spread across the world.Read More
Since the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Turkey, on 11 March, the total number of cases, as of 14 August, had reached 246,861. The Health Ministry announced that 1,226 new cases had been recorded that day. The total number of tests done by Turkey has reached 6 million, and the official death toll stands […]Read More
A 35-year-old women was left injured after a shark attack at Port Macquarie in Australia.Read More
