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Teacher’s retrial after landmark ECtHR judgment starts under tight security measures

The retrial of Yüksel Yalçınkaya, a teacher whose conviction on terrorism charges was found by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to have...

Kurdish mayor denied mandate despite winning landslide victory in eastern Turkey

A Kurdish politician who won the local election in Turkey’s eastern province of Van with a landslide victory on Sunday has been denied the...

Erdoğan’s anti-Israel rhetoric due to political considerations in local elections: report

A Turkish diplomat told an Israeli diplomat that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s use of harsh rhetoric against Israel due to its ongoing war on...

EU says March 31 elections show Turks’ commitment to local democracy

Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, praised the holding of Sunday's elections in Turkey in a "calm and professional manner," saying that it...

Erdoğan still has hand to play after election bruising

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's opponents may have celebrated Sunday's local election hammering of the Turkish president as if they'd unseated him, but the "reis," or...

Opposition defeat of Erdoğan redraws Turkey’s political map

Turkish opposition candidates and voters on Monday celebrated inflicting a stinging defeat on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's party in municipal elections. "You know how it...

Turkey’s hunger threshold reaches minimum wage

A labor union study put Turkey’s hunger threshold for March at TL 16,793 ($523), slightly below the minimum wage of TL 17,002, the Stockholm...

CoE election observers urge Turkey to do more to protect freedom of expression

The Council of Europe’s election observation mission to Turkey on Monday released a statement calling on Turkish authorities to do more to ensure freedom of...

Nationalist parties bled voters in local polls after toned-down rhetoric

Support for both Turkey’s ruling-party ally and nationalist opposition parties saw a significant decline in Sunday’s local elections following a campaign marked by less...

DEM Party victorious in much of Turkey’s SE despite claims of voter fraud

Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) emerged victorious in Turkey’s local elections on Sunday, winning a dozen municipalities in Turkey’s predominantly...

Osayi-Samuel among Fenerbahçe players facing discipline after altercation with fans

Nigerian international Bright Osayi-Samuel is one of three Fenerbahçe players who will appear at a disciplinary hearing of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) following...

Turkey’s finance minister vows to continue fighting inflation in first message after elections

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek reiterated the government's commitment to strengthening an economic program aimed at reducing the country’s high inflation to single digits...

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