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Turkish central bank hikes rates to save weakening lira

Turkey’s central bank raised its benchmark rate by 625 basis points on Thursday in a move that boosted the lira and may ease investor...

Turkish court releases 1 journalist, continues detention of 5 others in Kurdish newspaper trial

A Turkish court ruled on Wednesday to release journalist Pınar Tarlak but continued the pretrial detention of five other staff members during a hearing...

Inmates punished for cartoon insulting Erdoğan in prison publication

Six inmates in a prison in the northwestern province of Bolu have been given 10 days of solitary confinement as punishment for allegedly insulting...

Jailed journalist Ünal says Quranic verse considered terror evidence against him

Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily, has said his arrest lacks any legal...

Turkish-Iranian gold trader photographed dining at New York restaurant

Turkish-Iranian gold-trader Reza Zarrab, who was arrested in the US in 2016 on charges of evading sanctions on Iran, has purportedly been photographed at...

Former judge Okur: Erdoğan called me and said, ‘They will get my son, stop them’

İbrahim Okur, former head of the First Chamber of Turkey's Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), said then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Key suspect in 2013 terror attack in Turkey captured in Syria: report

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) said on Wednesday it has captured a key suspect of a 2013 terror attack in Reyhanlı, Turkey, in the...

Turkish navy algorithm detects allegedly 4,500 Gülen-linked officers among 800,000 profiled

A Turkish officer who had previously developed an algorithm for profiling individuals for ties to the Gülen movement has scrutinized some 800,000 people, including...

Council of Europe urges Turkey to adapt new anti-terror measures to ECHR

The Council of Europe has urged Turkey to adapt its new legislation on demonstrations, public meetings and counterterrorism measures to the European Convention on...

65 percent of Turkish public thinks Brunson’s continuing detention is right: poll

A total of 65.4 percent of the Turkish public thinks that continuing detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson is right, according to a recent...

Jailed journalist Şanlı says wants press organizations not to forget him

Journalist Ufuk Şanlı, who was arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 and was handed down a...

Pop singer investigated over Gülen links for use of dollar bills in video clip

Turkish pop singer Fatih Karaca, who uses the stage name Mabel Matiz, has testified to prosecutors about using one dollar bills in a video...

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