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Turkey says foreign firms interested in controversial Kanal İstanbul project

Dutch, Belgian and French companies are interested in a massive canal project on the edge of İstanbul, Turkish state media cited Transport Minister Cahit Turhan as...

Famous social security expert, journalist briefly detained over Gülen links

Ali Tezel, a journalist and social security expert, was briefly detained on Monday due to social media posts about the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish...

Turkish State Railways (TCDD) suffered $400 mln loss in 2018

The Turkish State Railways (TCDD) suffered a loss of TL 2,558,000 ($426 million) in 2018, TL 863 million more than expected, according to a report from...

Conscript who killed Armenian-Turkish private gets 16 years in prison

A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of 16 years, eight months to Kıvanç Ağaoğlu, who shot a Turkish soldier of Armenian descent in...

Some bullets used in 2016 coup attempt did not belong to Turkish military, journalist claims

Ammunition used on the night of a bloody coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, did not belong to the Turkish military, raising questions about...

Woman with high risk pregnancy jailed over Gülen links

A young woman who is 18 weeks pregnant and has a risk of miscarriage has been arrested in the western province of İzmir due...

Assyrian priest arrested in Turkey during military operation

An Assyrian priest from the Mor Yakup Church, also known as Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis, in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin, was arrested...

Turkey stops 1.2 million migrants attempting to reach Europe in 5 years: officials

Turkish officials have apprehended some 1.2 million irregular migrants and more than 27,000 human traffickers over the past five years, according to official data from the...

Turkish drone strike targeting Syrian town injures 2 civilians: report

A Turkish drone strike targeting the entry checkpoint to the northern Syrian town of Ain Issa on Thursday afternoon injured two civilians and one member of...

Turkish central bank expects lira to be valued at 6.43 against dollar at yearend 2020

Turkey’s central bank has said it expects inflation will be 10.01 percent at the end of 2020, while economic growth will be 3.4 percent and the...

Wikipedia will be accessible in Turkey after top court publishes detailed ruling: minister

Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül on Friday said that a two-year-long ban on access to Wikipedia would be lifted after the country’s highest court publishes its...

More than 1,000 alleged Gülen followers detained near Greek border since failed coup

A total of 1,086 Turkish nationals who were allegedly members of the faith-based Gülen movement have been detained by security forces at the Turkish-Greek border since...

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