Turkish Minute

Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, who was brutally detained while covering the İstanbul Pride March in 2021, has been indicted on charges of...

A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of almost seven years to a retired general who was retried for allegedly taking part...

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and a prominent human rights advocate, has changed his mind and decided...

The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission approved a bill ratifying Finland's bid to join NATO, effectively taking Helsinki another step toward membership of the...

Eleven prospective candidates who want to run in the presidential election in Turkey on May 14 are trying to collect the 100,000 signatures necessary...

Turkey's central bank held its policy rate at 8.5 percent as expected on Thursday, saying it had become even more important to keep financial...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced a TL 2,000 ($105) increase in pensions, bringing the lowest monthly pension to TL 7,500 ($393) as...

In a bid to circumvent the risks that could emerge from its possible closure ahead of the elections on May 14, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

Turkey has again been left off the list of invitees to an online summit that will be hosted by US President Joe Biden March...

New-York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Turkey to launch an “independent, transparent” investigation into the killing of four Kurdish civilians by...

In its annual human rights report on Turkey, the US State Department has included the Turkish government’s transnational repression tactics to suppress its critics...

Turkey’s arbitrary decision to give refugees living in the provinces affected by the February 6, 2023 earthquakes only 60 days outside the region leaves many...