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Decision to withdraw from İstanbul Convention made months ago: AKP official

A senior official from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Tuesday told BBC Turkish service that the AKP government started working on...

President Erdoğan to reshuffle cabinet soon, top AKP official says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will soon make changes to his cabinet, according to a top official from his ruling Justice and Development Party...

Jailed Kurdish leader given prison sentence on Erdoğan insult charges

A court on Monday handed down a prison sentence of three-and-a-half years to Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep...

165 presidential decrees, laws challenged at Turkey’s top court in last 3 years

Turkey’s opposition has challenged 165 presidential decrees and laws passed by parliament at the Constitutional Court since 2018, when the country effectively switched from...

Unseated Turkey opposition lawmaker appeals to top court

A Turkish opposition party lawmaker said Tuesday he had applied to the Constitutional Court to cancel the decision to revoke his seat over a...

[Opinion] How poverty came to Turkey

Türkmen Terzi Turkey was never a country in which poverty came to mind. However, the financial desperation of the Turkish public was clearly visible when 5,217...

Turkish women stage sit-in for reinstatement of İstanbul Convention

Dozens of women gathered in central Taksim Square in İstanbul on Monday to stage a protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from an international convention to...

Expelled lawmaker ordered to surrender to judicial authorities in 10 days

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a politician and renowned human rights activist who was expelled from the Turkish Parliament last week, has received a notification from...

Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention challenged at top court

A Turkish civil society organization has taken a presidential decree that pulled Turkey out of an international treaty to combat domestic violence to the...

CoE regrets Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention without debate

The Council of Europe (CoE) has expressed deep regret about Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention, the world’s first binding treaty to prevent and...

Erdoğan accused of bypassing Parliament via presidential decrees

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been receiving growing criticism for resorting to presidential decrees as a means of bypassing parliament, issuing 71 such...

Turkish lira, stocks sink after Erdoğan fires top banker

The Turkish lira and stocks plunged Monday as officials tried to stem the carnage caused by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's abrupt dismissal of his...

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