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[ANALYSIS] What really happened in Turkey’s local elections – in numbers

Twenty-five years ago two young Islamist party candidates defied all odds and became the mayors-elect of Turkey’s two largest cities, İstanbul and Ankara. The success of...

Kurdish artist, journalist granted Index on Censorship’s arts award

The London-based Index on Censorship, a campaigning publishing organization for freedom of expression, has given this year’s Freedom of Expression Arts Award to Kurdish painter and journalist...

[OPINION] Ardern and Erdoğan: The difference between greatness and partisanship

Ekrem Dumanlı Politics is like a ladder that consists of four steps. On every step, a politician should pause and mature. If a politician who climbed all the...

Turkey’s ruling AKP loses İstanbul, Ankara to opposition: unofficial results

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Sunday lost municipal races in İstanbul and Ankara, two of the country’s major cities, according to unofficial results. Although...

95 pct of media outlet mobile notifications promoted Erdoğan government: report

A study of smartphone notifications from Turkey’s most popular mobile news applications has revealed that 95.5 percent of these notifications were in favor of the ruling...

Pro-gov’t media accuse comedy show of attempting perception management

Two pro-government media outlets in Turkey, the Sabah newspaper and A Haber TV station, have accused the producers of a famous comedy show of attempting perception...

Jailed journalist Ünal says indictment has lost validity as prosecutor suspended

Mustafa Ünal (51), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily, has said since the prosecutor who indicted...

Turkish president wanted to meet me in private, claims high-ranking ISIS militant

Abu Mansour al Maghrebi, a high-ranking militant of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip...

Dutch police looking for Turkish national as suspect in Utrecht shooting

Police in the Netherlands are searching for a Turkish national who they suspect opened fire on a tram, leaving at least three dead and...

[OPINION] Who is behind Erdoğan?

Mehmet Efe Çaman When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, some soldiers in the Turkish military thought Ankara...

Turkey top jailer of female journalists, CPJ announces on International Women’s Day

Turkey is the world’s top jailer of female journalists with 14 in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced on March 8, International...

Turkey ranks 85th in economic equality for women: World Bank

In a report recently released by the World Bank, Turkey ranked 85th out of 187 countries in terms of equal economic rights for women,...

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