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Turkey expands crackdown on folk music band famous for protest songs

Ankara’s crackdown on Grup Yorum, a folk collective with rotating band members, is continuing to expand even after two of its members died as...

‘Turkey is exporting censorship,’ says journalist denied access to funeral of Turkish historian in Romania

The staff of the Turkish Embassy in Bucharest on Tuesday prevented two Turkish journalists from reporting on the funeral of prominent Turkologist Mustafa Ali...

Head of NGO dissolved by France over allegations of extremism requests asylum from Erdoğan

Idriss Sihamedi, the founder and head of the BarakaCity Muslim charity association, has requested protection from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for himself and...

Destruction of the Turkish Central Bank’s independence explained

Turhan Bozkurt The Central Bank of Turkey (TCMB) started losing its independence after Durmuş Yılmaz left the post of governor in 2010. Yılmaz, who now...

Health minister urges reducing contact as Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll exceeds 10,000

Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll has reached 10,027 as the country’s most highly populated city of Istanbul is seeing a 62 percent weekly surge in...

Soldiers stripped and handcuffed in barn after 2016 putsch bid acquitted of coup charges

Cevheri Güven Mutlu Gülerce, one of a group of soldiers kept handcuffed and stripped down to their underwear in a barn after an attempted coup...

Turkey to introduce women-only universities in 2021 despite activists’ criticism

The Turkish government has announced plans to build universities exclusively for female students as part of its 2021 Presidential Annual Program, published in the...

Turkish lira plummets at unprecedented rate

The Turkish lira on Wednesday reached a new record low, trading at 8.23 to the US dollar amid Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s negative...

Turkey sentences US consulate employee to 5 years in prison on terror charges

A court on Tuesday sentenced Nazmi Mete Cantürk, a Turkish security officer at the US Consulate General in İstanbul, to more than five years...

Ankara bans resignation of healthcare staff as COVID-19 figures continue to rise

Healthcare workers in Turkey’s public and private institutions will not be allowed to quit their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a circular...

Infighting among members of Turkish-backed faction in Syria kills 12

Twelve people, including five civilians, were killed in clashes among members of the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad Division on Tuesday in Ras Al-Ain, where Turkey...

Erdoğan accuses European leaders of Islamophobia after police raid on Berlin mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused European leaders of hostility towards Muslims in the aftermath of a German police raid on a mosque...

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