Silence in the Mother Tongue: The Invisible Crisis of Kurdish Media in Turkey

By Murat Bayram — International Mother Language Day, February 21 Every February 21, the world…

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Amedspor Board Pledges Action Against Referee Errors and Fan Restrictions

The club's consultative body met to address systemic inequalities and announced a legal complaint against…

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Language scorecard of DEM Party municipalities: 45 websites remain Turkish-only

By Azad Altay, MA February 19, 2026 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The two-year performance of municipalities…

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World Radio Day: from the United States to the Sahel, from the Amazon to the Philippines, journalism on the airwaves is under pressure

On this year’s World Radio Day, 13 February 2026, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding…

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Silence in the Mother Tongue: The Invisible Crisis of Kurdish Media in Turkey

By Murat Bayram — International Mother Language Day, February 21 Every February 21, the world…

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Amedspor Board Pledges Action Against Referee Errors and Fan Restrictions

The club's consultative body met to address systemic inequalities and announced a legal complaint against…

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Language scorecard of DEM Party municipalities: 45 websites remain Turkish-only

By Azad Altay, MA February 19, 2026 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The two-year performance of municipalities…

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World Radio Day: from the United States to the Sahel, from the Amazon to the Philippines, journalism on the airwaves is under pressure

On this year’s World Radio Day, 13 February 2026, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding…

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From the Medrese to the Modern Era: A Journey with Bozarslan’s Work – Martin van Bruinessen

Kurdish intellectual Mehmed Emin Bozarslan passed away, but he left an important and lasting legacy…

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Silence in the Mother Tongue: The Invisible Crisis of Kurdish Media in Turkey

By Murat Bayram — International Mother Language Day, February 21 Every February 21, the world marks International Mother Language Day — a UNESCO-designated occasion to celebrate linguistic diversity and the…

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Amedspor Board Pledges Action Against Referee Errors and Fan Restrictions

The club's consultative body met to address systemic inequalities and announced a legal complaint against a Sakaryaspor executive The Amedspor Consultative Board convened on Feb. 20, 2026, to address a…

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Language scorecard of DEM Party municipalities: 45 websites remain Turkish-only

By Azad Altay, MA February 19, 2026 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The two-year performance of municipalities held by the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party regarding the Kurdish language has remained…

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World Radio Day: from the United States to the Sahel, from the Amazon to the Philippines, journalism on the airwaves is under pressure

On this year’s World Radio Day, 13 February 2026, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding the alarm over the growing threats facing radio broadcasters. Attacked in conflict zones, muzzled by…

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15-16th issues of Botan Times Weekly magazine out!

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Music Beyond Borders: A short film about anti-Kurdish discrimination in Turkey

By Minority Rights Group International Join us in exploring the powerful story of a banned language and a silenced culture. This short film takes you back to the 1980s in Turkey,…

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NameBT will send out weekly newsletters

Botan Times has launched a new service for its readers. Starting this week, Botan Times will send you a weekly email about the content of its publications. NameBT started releasing.…

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Happiness of Forgetting

A few days ago, on 20 June, 15 people died in the fires that broke out in Mardin and Diyarbakır. We felt very sorry for them. We were sad, our…

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