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Turkey grants emergency use authorization for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

Turkish medical authorities on Friday granted emergency use authorization for Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the country would...

14-year-old detained in SE Turkey on Erdoğan insult charges

A 14-year-old boy in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari has been detained on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social...

Turkey to officially abandon Istanbul Convention on July 1

Turkey will officially withdraw from an international convention that aims to combat domestic violence on July 1, according to a presidential decree published in...

New presidential board to monitor human rights violations from Erdoğan’s palace

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is notorious for the widespread human rights violations in the country he governs, will monitor rights violations in...

Erdoğan slams Cyprus after UN talks fail

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lambasted Cyprus on Friday after talks with Greek Cypriot leaders in Geneva ended without a breakthrough, Agence France-Presse reported. The...

Turkey’s longest-jailed journalist likens 18-year proceedings to gov’t theatre

Hatice Duman, the former owner and news editor of the socialist Atılım (Leap) weekly who has been behind bars since 2003, has said her...

29 municipalities in Turkey face probe over alleged passport scam

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into 29 municipalities, the majority of them run by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), on...

Turkish scientist, exposing cancer risk, acquitted of charges

A Turkish scientist has been acquitted by an appeals court after he was convicted for disclosing classified information after exposing cancer risks from toxic...

Erdoğan riles critics, Russia with ‘crazy’ new canal

Not content with shaping Turkey's history, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is about to change its geography, too, by building an alternative to the Bosporus,...

Critics blacklisted and threatened by Turkish gov’t supporters on Clubhouse

Many people who criticize the Turkish government on the new social media platform Clubhouse are being blacklisted and threatened by pro-government accounts, the Stockholm...

RSF condemns ‘political and judicial persecution’ of exiled journalist Dündar

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned “Turkey’s political and judicial persecution” of exiled journalist and former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who is facing...

Top court upholds sentence given to jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence of four years, eight months given to Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been...

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