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Jailed Kurdish politician given prison sentence on conviction of insulting former PM

Former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November 2016, has been given a jail...

Turkey’s RTÜK fines TV station due to remarks of arrested journalist

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has imposed a fine on the pro-opposition Tele1 TV station and temporarily halted the...

Messages of support snowball for Turkish pop music diva after Erdoğan rebuke

Turkey’s pop music diva, Sezen Aksu, who has been directly targeted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan due to the lyrics of one of her...

İstanbul airport shuts down due to heavy snow

İstanbul Airport, which was Europe's busiest last year, suspended all flights on Monday because of a heavy snowstorm blanketing Turkey's biggest city, Agence France-Presse...

Pro-Ankara party looks set to win Turkish Cypriot vote in snap poll

A right-wing nationalist party has won the majority of Turkish Cypriot votes in snap legislative elections in the breakaway northern region of Cyprus, according...

Turkish Cypriots vote under shadow of economic crisis

Turkish Cypriots cast their ballots on Sunday in a snap legislative election in the northern third of the Mediterranean island after a campaign dominated...

[OPINION] Does Turkey really want to ease tension between Russia and Ukraine?

Türkmen Terzi US and European leaders speak cautiously against Russia, which annexed Crimea in 2014 and is increasing its military deployment in the region...

Turkish pop music diva attracts Erdoğan’s wrath due to lyrics of 2017 song

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has jumped on the bandwagon of people criticizing and threatening Turkey’s pop music diva, Sezen Aksu, who has been...

Vast majority of police officers suspected of excessive use of force go unpunished

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has stated that as few as 12 of 2,594 police officers who were suspected of excessive use of force...

Erdoğan’s approval ratings up as lira stabilizes: survey

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's approval rating rose 2.1 percentage points in January, a survey by Metropoll showed on Thursday, as the Turkish lira steadied...

Turkish FM has phone call with Israeli counterpart for first time in 13 years

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has had a phone call with his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, for the first time in 13 years, amid...

Turkish diplomats lack basic competence in some major languages: report

A report by the Brussels-based Institute for Diplomacy and Economy (INSTITUDE) on the 122 Turkish ambassadors currently serving at Turkish embassies has revealed that...

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