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More than 50 detained ahead of banned İstanbul pride parade

Police detained more than 50 people in İstanbul on Sunday ahead of a banned LGBTQ+ pride march, the city's bar association said. "Before today's İstanbul...

Rights groups condemn Turkey’s arrest of lawyer for jailed İstanbul mayor

Human Rights Watch and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project on Thursday denounced the arrest of a defense lawyer for jailed İstanbul Mayor...

10 detained in Turkey over leaking and selling confidential trade ministry data

The Turkish police have detained 10 suspects in a nationwide operation targeting the illegal sale of confidential trade ministry data, the state-run Anadolu news...

[OPINION] The West is giving up on the Turkish opposition suffocating under Erdoğan’s pressure

Ömer Murat* The arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s strongest rival in the next presidential race, signals Turkey’s alarming slide into...

Turkish gov’t signals no midyear minimum wage hike amid economic woes: report

Turkey’s government plans to skip a mid-year increase in the minimum wage, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg, resisting political pressure to...

Another journalist arrested in Turkey amid ongoing crackdown on the press

A Turkish court on Thursday ruled for the arrest of freelance journalist Metin Yoksu, part of an investigation led by prosecutors in the northeastern...

Majority of Turks say country needs ‘a strong leader willing to break the rules’: Ipsos survey

More than 50 percent of Turkish citizens believe their country needs a strong leader willing to break the rules to fix it, a rate...

Turkey’s main opposition leader slams EU, int’l community for silence on Erdoğan’s crackdown

Özgür Özel, Turkey’s main opposition leader, has sharply criticized the European Union and the international community for remaining silent in the face of what...

Schengen visa delays prevented 50,000 Turkish students from studying abroad in 2024

Some 50,000 Turkish students planning to study abroad faced major problems last year due to long delays and bureaucratic hurdles in obtaining Schengen visas,...

Turkey backs NATO’s 5 percent defense goal, considers domestic air shield: report

Turkey supports NATO's decision to more than double its defense spending target to 5 percent of gross domestic product by 2035 and is already...

Erdoğan says Trump ‘well-intentioned’ on delivering F-35 jets to Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday expressed cautious optimism over the delivery of US-made F-35 fighter jets, describing President Donald Trump as “well-intentioned”...

Turkey to host next NATO summit, allies agree on 5 percent defense spending target

NATO leaders on Wednesday committed to spending 5 percent of annual output on defense by 2035 and also announced that the alliance will hold...

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