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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party backs ousted opposition chairman after police raid on CHP headquarters

A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) visited Özgür Özel, the ousted leader of the main opposition, in parliament...

Unpaid loans sent to debt collectors jump 68 percent in Turkey in a year

The amount of unpaid loans being handled by Turkey’s debt collection companies rose 68 percent in a year to 132 billion lira, a sign...

Looming Armenian elections put rapprochement with Turkey at stake

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election has become a vote on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s efforts to normalize relations with Turkey through border openings, railway...

9 CHP members arrested in probe linked to annulled party congress

Nine members of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have been arrested in an investigation into alleged irregularities at the party’s 2023 congress,...

PACE rapporteurs warn Turkey’s opposition must not be silenced by force or courts

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) co-rapporteurs on Turkey said Sunday that the country’s opposition must not be silenced “through force...

Jailed İstanbul mayor blames Erdoğan for CHP takeover, calls former party leader a ‘puppet’

Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Sunday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the court-ordered takeover of Turkey’s main opposition party and...

Turkey’s top court annuls digital search law over privacy safeguards

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled a criminal procedure law that allowed judges to authorize searches and the copying and seizing of suspects’ computers and...

Öcalan warns Turkey peace process needs legal framework, says ‘no time to lose’

Jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan warned Monday against delaying legal steps to advance a peace process with Turkey, saying continued uncertainty...

Erdoğan reverses order to close liberal İstanbul university after protests

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday reversed his decision to close a liberal private university in İstanbul after protests by students and faculty...

[OPINION] Fear of the ballot box: The deep irony of Turkish politics

Doğan Ertuğrul* President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has now effectively placed his former rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, whom he mocked for years as the “general manager of...

Turkish riot police use tear gas to enter CHP headquarters

Hundreds of Turkish riot police used tear gas and forced their way into the Ankara headquarters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

Turkey joins regional call as US, Iran seek to finalize deal to end Middle East war

Turkish representatives joined Middle Eastern leaders and Pakistani officials in a call with US President Donald Trump as Washington and Tehran sought Sunday to...

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