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Elderly Alzheimer’s patient arrested on terrorism charges over Gülen links

An 81-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and was detained by police in the Turkish province of İzmir on Monday due to his links to...

Turkey’s ‘perceived corruption’ worsened in 2019

Turkey has taken 13 steps back and was ranked the 91st least corrupt nation among 180 countries with a score of 39 out of 100, according...

Erdoğan ‘freaked out,’ left Libya conference early after military intervention proposal rejected

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the biggest loser at the Jan. 19 Berlin conference on Libya, according to an op-ed by Cengiz Çandar published Wednesday...

Turkey’s ruling party seeks to grant ‘neighborhood watchmen’ detention powers

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has drafted a bill that allows “neighborhood watchmen” (bekçi in Turkish) to carry out ID checks and take people into...

Turkey briefly detains journalist over anonymous 2017 complaint

Turkish journalist Gülşen İşeri was detained on Wednesday morning while visiting a civil registry office for passport renewal in İstanbul and was released later in the day,...

Turks among top asylum seekers in Finland in 2019

The Finnish Immigration Service (MIGRI) on Monday announced that most of the new asylum seekers last year arrived from Turkey and Russia. “Most of the Turkish applicants referred...

Turkey’s central bank transfers TL 40.5 billion to Treasury

The Turkish Central Bank has transferred TL 40.5 billion ($6.84 billion) to the Treasury after the government announced on Friday that December’s budget deficit represented the biggest...

Turkey’s investigation into banks casts wide net over trading: report

Turkish competition officials made surprise visits to several private, state and foreign banks late on Friday to analyze computers as they opened a wide-ranging probe of...

Cyprus points finger at Turkey for theft of gas drilling data: report

Turkey may have stolen technical data that enabled it to send a drill ship to a specific location south of Cyprus that energy companies Eni and...

Turkey blocks Greek Cypriots from attending Geneva conference: report

Turkey has blocked a request from the Republic of Cyprus to take part in the Geneva Disarmament Conference as an adversarial relationship between the two countries...

Turkey’s metal industrialists association decides to lock workers out: report

The Turkish Metal Industrialists Association said on Wednesday it had decided on a lockout after a labor union decided to go on strike following stalled negotiations...

Turkey says suspect in diplomat’s murder in N. Iraq detained at border: report

Turkish officials late on Tuesday claimed they detained a suspect allegedly linked to an attack that killed a Turkish diplomat in northern Iraq last July, the...

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