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Insurance company AKsigorta refuses to pay auto claim for purge victim

AKsigorta, a Turkish insurance company, has rejected a claim for damages sustained in an accident by one of its insureds on the grounds that the claimant...

Pregnant Turkish inmate suffers anxiety attack after being denied medication

Esra Uymaz Saral, a 27-year-old Turkish woman who was arrested in İzmir when she was four and-a-half-months pregnant, has reportedly suffered an anxiety attack in prison after...

İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands mayor reveals new plan to prohibit horse-drawn carriages

The municipality of İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands is determined to completely prohibit horse-drawn carriages, or phaetons, as a new deal with carriage operators is about to be...

President Erdoğan, İstanbul mayor neck-and-neck in latest public approval poll

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu are leading neck-and-neck in a public approval survey conducted in December by the MetroPOLL polling company. The...

Marmara University, Erdoğan’s alleged alma mater, gets lion’s share of state funding

The İstanbul-based Marmara University, from where Turkish President Recep Erdoğan allegedly graduated, was given the largest amount of state funds among other universities in 2019, Turkish media...

Ministry: 3 Turkish soldiers killed in attack in northern Syria

Turkey’s Defense Ministry has announced that three Turkish soldiers were killed by a car bomb in northern Syria, where Turkey has been conducting a military operation...

AKP, MHP reject motion to grant ‘house of worship’ status to cemevis in İstanbul

Members of the İstanbul City Council from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have voted against a motion that...

Two CHP mayors starting to satisfy popular need for opposition: columnist

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) have started to respond to the need for opposition felt in...

Bank accounts of Tunceli Municipality frozen due to social security debt

At the request of Turkey’s Social Security Institution (SGK), the bank accounts of the Tunceli (Dersim) Municipality have been frozen due to heavy indebtedness to the...

Former Turkish general tried on coup charges rearrested 2 days after release

A Turkish court on Thursday arrested former Lt. Gen. Metin İyidil two days after his release in a trial in which he faced charges...

İstanbul mayor says Treasury denying permission to revive 3 stalled rail projects

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has said the city’s plans to revive three rail system projects are currently blocked by the Undersecretariat of the Treasury, the BirGün news...

Turkish justice system fails to release purge victim diagnosed with stage 4 cancer

Abdülazim Özdemir, a 49-year-old engineer who was purged from his job at the Ministry of Development in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in...

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