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Turkey isolates 4,603 airline passengers from UK amid fears of new coronavirus strain

Turkey has identified and quarantined 4,603 airline passengers who arrived from the United Kingdom on or after Dec. 14, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca...

Kavala’s ongoing detention runs against Turkey’s commitment to rule of law: EU

The decision last Friday of an İstanbul court to continue the imprisonment of philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala on charges related to a failed...

YouTube’s decision to appoint local representative in Turkey will increase censorship, rights watchdogs say

YouTube’s move to appoint a local representative in Turkey will inevitably lead to an increase in arbitrary censorship and compromise people’s privacy and right...

Turkish Consulate in London profiled deceased Erdoğan critic and his family: report

Even death due to COVID-19 does not prevent Turkish nationals from being profiled by the Turkish Consulate General in London, with a deceased Turkish...

Turkey’s opposition-held municipalities struggle under AKP obstruction

Turkish municipalities held by the opposition such as those in İstanbul, Ankara and predominantly Kurdish cities continue to operate under heavy pressure exerted by...

What will Turkey’s nationalist actors do with the HDP and the ‘Kurdish Issue’?

Alin Ozinian Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s extreme-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), called for the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on...

Erdoğan sues opposition politician over remarks calling him a ‘dictator’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against a main opposition party politician seeking TL 250,000 ($32,000) in damages for remarks accusing...

Pro-government company commercial receives record number of dislikes on YouTube

A commercial posted by the pro-government Cengiz Holding on YouTube has attracted a record number of 40,000 dislikes in a show of public disapproval...

Top court sees rights violation in case of worker purged from municipality in landmark ruling

In a landmark decision Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the right to a fair trial of a worker fired from his municipal job...

Kurdish politician ousted from parliament sentenced to 22 years in prison

A high criminal court in southeastern Turkey has handed down a jail sentence of 22 years, three months on terrorism charges to Leyla Güven,...

Turkey sees record rise in number of new prisons, inmates during AKP rule

There has been a record rise in the number of prisons constructed as well as the number of people who were put behind bars...

Turkey halts flights from the UK, three other countries over new coronavirus strain

Turkey has temporarily halted flights from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and South Korea in an effort to prevent a new, potentially more contagious...

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