Category: ENGLISH
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Syrian children in Turkish sweatshops
Halil Ahmed fled his home in Syria four years ago when he was just 12 years old. The war had finally come too close for comfort.
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LGBTI community determined to protect their rights after Ankara’s ban
Gözde Demirbilek, 22, was stunned when she first heard about the decision to ban all public activities of the LGBTI community in Turkey’s capital Ankara. “I had a lump in my throat and felt paralysed,” said the activist and editor, who works at online LGBTI newspaper KaosGL.org. The ban, announced on November 18 last year,
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An interpreter’s tweets break media silence over controversial trial
Bored one night in a hotel room in a Turkish city, freelance interpreter Sebla Küçük began translating a series of live tweets from American reporters covering a November 2017 legal hearing in New York. The case seemed curious to her, involving a Turkish-Iranian gold trader accused of evading US sanctions against Iran. She never imagined