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Erdoğan files TL 500,000 lawsuit against opposition leader over Gara remarks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against the head of the country’s main opposition party for TL 500,000 ($71,000) in damages...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for police violence against journalist in 2015 protest

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the government to pay TL 15,000 ($2,160) in damages to journalist Beyza Kural, who was subjected to ill-treatment by...

Turkey keeps main interest rate steady at 17 percent

Turkey's central bank on Thursday kept its main interest rate unchanged at 17 percent for the second month in a row to support a...

71-year-old jailed author Altan fails to get access to COVID-19 vaccine

Prominent Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan, 71, who has been behind bars for some five years, has failed to get a response to...

Erdoğan defiant as opposition puts blame on him for failed operation in Iraq

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remained defiant on Wednesday in the wake of statements from opposition parties holding him responsible for the killing of...

Erdoğan speech on language decline ironically turns out to be identical to ex-PM’s

A recent speech delivered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he said the Turkish language faces the threat of decline mainly due to...

İstanbul saw 66.4 percent drop in tourist arrivals in 2020 due to pandemic

İstanbul recorded a decline of 66.4 percent in tourist arrivals in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with only 5 million foreign tourists visiting...

Fighting fears of vaccines high up in Turkey’s mountains

Turkish doctor Sergan Saraçoğlu faces the twin hurdles of a snowstorm in the mountains and local fears of vaccines as he chases after alarmed...

Renowned human rights activist gets fine on Erdoğan insult charges

Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a famous human rights activist and head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), has been ordered by a Turkish court to...

2020 bidding wars among Turkey’s pro-gov’t firms led to regulatory agency complaints

Competition among companies known to be close to Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to win public tenders resulted in several complaints about...

Turkish police detain 30 in İstanbul due to alleged Gülen links

Turkish police teams on Wednesday detained 30 people in simultaneous raids in İstanbul in an operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, accused...

Turkey detains Russian ISIL suspect at Syria border

Turkish border guards have detained five Russians, including a woman suspected of membership in the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and...

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