In his daily Twitter briefing on Friday Turkey’s
health minister, Fahrettin Koca, said the number of confirmed coronavirus cases
had increased to 670, while five more...
A Turkish court on Friday revoked an additional
warrant issued for Osman Kavala, a jailed Turkish businessman and
philanthropist, on allegations related to a 2016 coup...
Başak Demirtaş, the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş, a
jailed Kurdish politician, on Friday urged the Turkish government to
immediately release prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Posting...
A German neo-Nazi group has sent a pig’s head to the
Berlin branch of Turkish public broadcaster TRT, according to the Ahval news
website.
TRT Deutsch‘s editor-in-chief...
Turkey has detained 64 people for sharing “unfounded
and provocative” posts on social media about the deadly coronavirus outbreak
since March 11, according to the Interior...
Turkey’s ruling party is preparing a bill to release
“as many prisoners as possible” from jails amid the coronavirus outbreak,
according to a party official.
However, rights...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree on
Friday postponing all events related to science, culture and art as Turkey
seeks to contain a surge in...
Turkey on Friday started testing all suspected cases
of coronavirus in more cities with additional labs, and the number of positive
cases is likely to increase...
Turkey’s youth unemployment increased to 25.4 percent
in 2019 with an annual 5.1 percentage point increase, the Turkish Statistical
Institute (TurkStat) said on Friday.
The unemployment rate...
The number of coronavirus cases in Turkey has reached
359, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted late on Thursday, adding that
another citizen had died, bringing the...
Turkey’s
Constitutional Court has ruled that a criminal court violated the rights to
freedom and security of İhsan Yalçın, a former forensics worker, when it
arrested him...
The crippling economic impact of the coronavirus is
set to push the world’s poorer countries including Turkey into recession by the
middle of the year, US...
