Behavioural sciences

Turkey's pretense of being a Western(ized), secular country has long been challenged as being "superimposed." I, for one, have always been a critic of the "radical Westernization project" of the Republican regime, since it could only be enforced by authoritarian politics. It led to the suppression of not only religious freedoms and the closure of Islamist parties, but also of basic freedoms, li

A private doctor recommended that the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster, French investigators said March 13.

LGBT inmates in a prison in the Mediterranean province of Antalya are living in one-person cells intended for those with life sentence despite light penalties of the former, with non-governmental organizations and civil rights groups calling the practice "a rights violation," daily Hürriyet has reported.

According to ‘Scientific American’s’ peer-reviewed studies and a vast number of market surveys the pet you own can say a lot about the type of person you are. Dog owners are generally considered more extroverted, agreeable and conscientious, while cat lovers are more likely to be divorced, widowed or separated. Here is a list of pets say about you (at least in America):

Two men were killed and at least 20 wounded in a violent clash between inmates at the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison on Sunday.

According to initial reports, a group of inmates believed to be Albanians and Arabs and armed with knives among other weapons, attacked another group of Pakistani inmates as they were returning to their cells at the detention facility's C Wing.

A study from the University of Edinburgh detected a pattern of slower mental decline among bilingual people. The longitudinal study tested 835 people born in 1936 when they were just aged 11 and then retested them in their early 70s from 2008 to 2010.

262 of the participants had learnt a language other than English, of which 195 had learnt the language before they turned 18 eyars.

Relatives of victims of domestic terrorist attacks in Greece on Thursday expressed opposition to a bill that would allow convicted November 17 member Savvas Xeros, among others, to be released from prison, distributing leaflets to MPs ahead of a debate in Parliament?s plenary session on the proposed reform.

The government submitted a bill to Parliament on Thursday that foresees the scrapping of maximum-security prisons, an issue that had been one of the driving forces behind numerous sit-in protests by anti-establishment groups over the last few weeks.

It is common knowledge that laws created under the Harm Principle are written to protect people from being harmed by others. However, their presence is the proof that when not in a frame of limits, we may, consciously or unconsciously, cause harm to those around us.

Turkey is the country with the highest rate of arrested suspects in Europe, with almost one-third of inmates in the country still awaiting their final verdict, according to a Council of Europe report released on Feb. 11