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US says expulsion of rights advocate MP from parliament “troubling move” for Turkey

US State Department spokesman Ned Price on Wednesday described Ankara’s expulsion of opposition lawmaker and prominent human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu from parliament...

Turkey’s central bank hikes main interest rate to 19 pct

Turkey's central bank on Thursday sharply hiked its main interest rate to 19 percent to counter rising inflation and the dropping value of the...

US says move to ban pro-Kurdish party would ‘undermine democracy’ in Turkey

The United States warned on Wednesday that efforts to ban the main pro-Kurdish party in Turkey would undermine the nation's democracy, Agence France-Presse reported. A...

MP Gergerlioğlu’s expulsion from parliament sparks global outrage

Turkish dissidents, members of the European Parliament and prominent rights activists around the globe have condemned Ankara's expulsion of opposition MP and prominent human...

Court releases 2 Boğaziçi students from pre-trial detention in case involving Kaaba poster

An İstanbul court has released two Boğaziçi University students from pre-trial detention in the first hearing of a case in which they, along with...

Turkish prosecutor asks top court to ban pro-Kurdish HDP

A Turkish prosecutor on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's third-largest group, Agence France-Presse reported. President...

Turkish academic who called Jews ‘snakes’ and ‘cursed’ invited to German university

Cevheri Güven Theology professor Mustafa Öztürk, who is known for his anti-Semitic, anti-Western and genocidal discourse, has been invited to pursue his academic studies at...

Turkey, Cambodia called on to implement UN body decision on expelled educator

The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) has called on the governments of Turkey and Cambodia to implement a decision against the Kingdom...

Erdoğan says Saudi Arabia wants armed Turkish drones

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia has requested a supply of Turkish military drones, Agence France-Presse reported. But Erdoğan also voiced...

Greece-Turkey talks on maritime dispute yield no breakthrough

Diplomats from NATO members Greece and Turkey failed to reach a breakthrough on Tuesday during their latest round of talks on their standoff over...

Turkish jewelers irked at plans to force them to deposit 500 grams of gold with state banks

A draft regulation by Turkey's trade ministry which will stipulate that jewelers deposit 500 grams of gold with state-owned banks as "security" has drawn...

Saudi Arabia shut down Turkish schools last year amid political tension: ministry

Saudi Arabia shut down Turkish schools in two provinces at the end of 2020, a Turkish official from the Ministry of Education told parliament...

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