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Erdoğan’s ban on alcohol sales: a new step in the polarization of Turkish society

Alin Ozinian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last month announced a nationwide lockdown from April 29 to May 17 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Erdoğan’s AKP continues to bleed voters, new poll suggests

The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been ruling Turkey as a single-party government since 2002, would have had a nationwide vote of...

Erdoğan calls French separatism bill ‘guillotine’ of democracy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday denounced a planned French law designed to counter "Islamist separatism" as a "guillotine" of democracy, Agence France-Presse...

Eid prayers in Hagia Sophia after 87 years: Top imam gives sermon while holding sword

Muslims performed Eid prayers, a special congregational prayer on the morning of Eid al-Fitr, at the Hagia Sophia mosque after an 87-year hiatus on...

Hundreds of lives could have been saved if the Istanbul Convention was properly implemented: report

At least 2,336 women who were killed by family members or people close to them would still be alive if the Istanbul Convention had...

Former military officer jailed on coup charges dies of COVID-19

Erdal Kılınç, a former lieutenant colonel who was jailed on coup charges following an abortive putsch in Turkey in July 2016, died of COVID-19...

Businessman jailed over Gülen links dies of cancer after his release from prison

Businessman İsmet Torun, 53, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer during his 38-month incarceration on terrorism charges, died in Ankara on Monday after his...

World needs to give Israel a ‘strong’ lesson, Erdoğan says in call with Putin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the world needs to give Israel a "strong" lesson on Wednesday in a call with his Russian counterpart,...

Turkey was Europe’s largest plastic waste destination in 2020: report

The European Union exported some 660,000 tons of plastic waste to Turkey in 2020, making it the bloc's largest plastic waste destination, according to...

Another batch of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Turkey

A plane carrying another batch of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac landed in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday,...

Turkey to ease COVID-19 restrictions after Eid holiday

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that the country will gradually ease lockdown restrictions after the Eid holiday, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news...

Fears of ‘full-scale war’ as Israel-Palestinian clashes kill 56

Relentless rocket fire and rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab towns fuelled growing fears Wednesday that violence between Israel and the Palestinians that has claimed 56...

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