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US ambassador’s remarks grouping Turkey, Syria and Iraq together prompt backlash

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack drew criticism from Turkish opposition figures and former officials after saying Washington needed a single point of contact...

Turkish minister confirms visa broker complaints after censoring of report on ex-FM-linked VFS network

Turkey’s trade minister said authorities received 153 complaints about visa intermediaries and are reviewing seven companies accused of reselling Schengen visa appointments, days after...

Main opposition says government is planning to shut down CHP, urges party vote before July 25

The leadership team of Özgür Özel, the ousted head of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), warned Wednesday that the party must hold...

Secret Turkish police document shows monitoring of Gülen-linked activities in the Netherlands: report

A confidential Turkish police document cited in a new legal report shows that Turkish authorities monitored activities linked to the faith-based Gülen movement in...

Turkey’s state railway operator posts record 35.5 bln lira loss

Turkey’s state railway operator posted a net loss of 35.53 billion lira ($774 million) in 2025, more than five times its 2022 loss in...

Turkey extradites brother of wanted drug trafficker Bolle Jos to Netherlands

Turkey has extradited the older brother of fugitive Dutch drug trafficker Joseph Johannes Leijdekkers, known as Bolle Jos, to the Netherlands after Turkish authorities detained...

Veteran Turkish TV journalist dies at 66

Veteran Turkish television journalist and news anchor Reha Muhtar died early Wednesday at a hospital in Bodrum, where he had been receiving treatment for...

Former Turkish spy faces life sentence over alleged betrayal of defectors, state secrets to Assad

A former Turkish intelligence officer faces a life sentence on accusations that he helped Bashar al-Assad’s intelligence service abduct two Syrian opposition commanders from...

Erdoğan adviser slams Kanye West’s İstanbul concert, says it put youth under ‘cultural siege’

A senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that a Kanye West concert in İstanbul on Saturday put young people under...

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission to hold hearing on Turkey’s democracy, rights record

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a bipartisan human rights commission in the US House of Representatives, will hold a hearing Wednesday on Turkey’s...

Pro-Kurdish party leader says intervention in Turkey’s main opposition threatens all politics

Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, said Tuesday that a court ruling targeting the...

[INTERVIEW] What makes Erdoğan an untouchable autocrat?

Abdülhamit Bilici, Washington, D.C. Has Turkey completed its transition from a flawed democracy to an authoritarian system? Why have the United States and Europe largely...

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