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İstanbul Municipality video game animates dangers of Kanal İstanbul

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB), which has been an outspoken critic of the controversial Kanal İstanbul -- a proposed artificial waterway in İstanbul --...

Suicides in Turkey surged by 48 pct during AKP rule: report

A report drafted by main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) Vice Chairperson Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi has revealed that suicides in Turkey have increased by...

Turkey’s post-coup crackdown nearly on par with China’s imprisonment of Uighurs

Turkey jailed 220,000 people on dubious terrorism charges between 2016 and 2019, rights group the Arrested Lawyers initiative said on Friday, a figure nearly...

Erdoğan vows to press ahead with controversial canal project despite opposition

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has promised to press ahead with the controversial Kanal İstanbul, a proposed artificial waterway in İstanbul, despite opposition from...

Erdoğan laying the groundwork for bringing back long-missing son-in-law

Cevheri Güven President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has begun testing the waters to reintroduce to prominence his son-in-law Berat Albayrak, who stepped down as finance minister...

Speculation over possible Albayrak return sends lira tumbling

Turkey's lira tumbled on Thursday after a rally triggered by a shakeup of the economy team in November as the government again defended the...

Key figure in arms smuggling to Syria was protected by Turkish intelligence

Cevheri Güven New allegations have surfaced that Heysem Topalca, a key figure in arms smuggling from Turkey to Syria who died on Feb. 10 in...

The return of an Ottoman-Armenian feminist: ‘Zabel’ by BGST

Alin Ozinian First staged in 2015 “Zabel,” a play about Ottoman-Armenian author and feminist Zabel Yesayan, returned to audiences last week. Written by Aysel Yıldırım...

AKP convention attendees offered free COVID-19 tests, opposition MP claims

Participants of a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) convention held in Ankara on Feb. 17 were offered free COVID-19 tests regardless of the...

Turkey sentences 3 to prison over Ghosn escape from Japan

An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced three Turks to four years, two months in prison for helping smuggle former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in...

Key suspect in arms smuggling to Syria dies in mysterious car accident

Cevheri Güven Heysem Topalca, a notorious Syrian arms smuggler working under the alias “Ghost Commander” who since the beginning of the Syrian civil war has...

219 pregnant women, mothers detained or arrested over Gülen links in 4 years

A total of 219 pregnant women and women with children under six years of age were arbitrarily detained or arrested over their suspected links...

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