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Only 28 percent of Turkish Parliament personnel are women, inquiry reveals

A parliamentary inquiry submitted by an opposition deputy has revealed that only 28.4 percent of personnel in the Turkish Parliament are women, with the...

Minority newspapers in Turkey are struggling to survive

Alin Ozinian Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, during its last general assembly of...

Lawyer demanding fair trial re-arrested, beaten by police in custody

Aytaç Ünsal, a lawyer who had until recently been on a hunger strike in support of his demand for a fair trial, was detained...

Pregnant woman claims sexually harassed, insulted by prosecutor during interrogation

Nigar Kocabaş, a pregnant woman who in 2016 was interrogated by Chief Public Prosecutor İbrahim Keskin in the northern Turkish city of Samsun for...

Turkey plans to administer Chinese COVID vaccine to 5 mln people: report

Turkey plans to start vaccinating people against the novel coronavirus on Dec. 25, administering 450,000 injections daily, according to a news report by the...

Turkey’s top judicial body denies complaint alleging corruption, battery by senior judge

Turkey's Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has denied claims that it received a complaint filed against a high-ranking member of the judiciary by...

Turkey’s far-right party leader calls for closure of pro-Kurdish opposition party

Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and election ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called on the Turkish judiciary...

Me Too movement shakes Turkish literary world, one author accused of harassment takes own life

More and more Turkish women in social media have begun to recount their memories of sexual assault and harassment by famous Turkish authors in...

Turkey’s Presidential Communications Directorate to make documentary, movies in İstanbul

The Department of Strategy Development of Turkey’s Presidential Communications Directorate is planning to shoot a documentary and two movies within three months, Turkish media...

Erdoğan refuses to declare 14-day lockdown despite calls from medical community

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has no plans to declare a 14-day lockdown to contain...

İstanbul’s Basilica Cistern at high risk of collapse, municipal officer warns

An İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) officer has warned on social media that the city’s iconic Basilica Cistern is at high risk of collapse in...

EU leaders agree on limited sanctions over Turkish gas drilling

European Union leaders agreed to penalize individuals and companies involved in planning and carrying out Turkish drilling in the eastern Mediterranean with bans on...

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