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[OPINION] Quo vadis, Turkey?

OPINION | MEHMET EFE ÇAMAN It is hard for me to believe what is going on in Turkey nowadays. Turkey used to be a country...

CHP’s İnce pledges to bring ‘that kick’ to justice

Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharram İnce on Sunday visited a coal miners’ memorial in Soma, Manisa province, where the deadliest coal mining...

Turkey’s Internet watchdog warns Twitter over popular anti-gov’t hashtags

Ömer Fatih Sayan, the director of Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communication Council (BTK), an Internet watchdog responsible for digital censorship in the country, has...

Akşener defies media embargo on her presidential campaign

Meral Akşener, the İYİ (Good) Party candidate for Turkey’s presidential election on June 24, challenged the lack of media coverage of her campaign, saying...

Erdoğan rejects Bahçeli’s pre-election general amnesty proposal

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday rebuffed a proposal for general amnesty floated by nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli, his ally for the June...

No baklava with pistachios for Turks during Ramadan due to high prices

Association of Baklava and Dessert Producers (BAKTAD) chairman Mehmet Yıldırım announced on Saturday that baklava, a traditional Turkish dessert, would not be baked with...

Turkish public broadcaster covers gov’t bloc for 37 hours, opposition only 3 hours

With campaigns in full swing for snap parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey on June 24, public broadcaster TRT covered the election alliance of...

MHP’s Bahçeli calls for amnesty for notorious mafia leaders

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli on Saturday called for amnesty for notorious gang leaders Alaattin Çakıcı and Kürşat Yılmaz, who have both...

JWF: Number of Turkish asylum seekers rising despite restrictions on the right to leave the country

A new report released by the New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) shows a tremendous increase in the number of asylum seekers from Turkey, despite restrictions...

HDP deputy says brother removed from job as doctor for being her brother

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Bektaş has said her brother, a doctor of internal medicine, was removed from his job by...

Yet another journalist put behind bars in Turkey

Managing editor of the now-closed Özgür Gündem daily, Reyhan Çapan, was put in prison on Friday to serve out a 15-month sentence handed down...

Court releases jailed journalists Bulaç and Özdemir in Zaman daily trial

A Turkish court ruled on Friday to release jailed journalists Ali Bulaç and Mehmet Özdemir, who are among 11 former columnists and editors of...

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