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Elon Musk’s SpaceX seeks license to launch Starlink in Turkey

SpaceX -- the provider of the Starlink broadband-from-space services -- has applied to the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) for a global mobile personal communication...

Russians make up largest group of tourists to Turkey so far in 2023: ministry data

More than 36 million tourists visited Turkey in the first eight months of 2023, with Russians accounting for the largest percentage of them, according...

Audit court’s 2022 report reveals irregularities, corruption in gov’t agencies

A recent report by the Turkish Court of Accounts, the government body responsible for auditing the accounts of public agencies and political parties, has...

Journalist gets suspended sentence for defamation of top judiciary members

A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence of 20 months to a journalist on conviction of defaming members of the Constitutional Court...

Erdoğan mistakes colors representing UN goals for LGBTQ flags: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan complained on Thursday that he was uncomfortable with the use of what he described as "LGBT colors" at the...

Man abducted from Tajikistan faces risk of torture, Turkish MP says

Opposition deputy and leading rights advocate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has expressed concern that Koray Vural, a businessman who is believed to have been renditioned...

Turkey’s top appeals court delivers landmark judgment against arbitrary denial of parole

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has delivered a landmark decision that found unlawful a prison board’s refusal to grant early release on the basis...

Unregistered Syrians who fail to leave İstanbul by Sept. 24 to face sanctions

The Turkish Ministry of Interior has announced that sanctions will be imposed on Syrians who fail to leave İstanbul by Sept. 24 despite being...

First Ukraine grain ship since Russian blockade reaches Istanbul

The first grain ship to sail from Ukraine since Russia reimposed its Black Sea blockade in July reached İstanbul on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reported,...

Main opposition leader criticizes arrest of teenager over obscene act with Atatürk picture

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader criticized the arrest of a 17-year-old high school student in İstanbul following the circulation of a...

Kuwaiti writer accused of insulting Atatürk threatens Turkish interior minister with lawsuit

Abd Al-Aziz Duwaihi Bin Rumaih, a Kuwaiti writer and businessman, has threatened Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya with legal action in response to Yerlikaya's...

Police detain 24 in southern Turkey for attending commemoration ceremony for leftist figures

Turkish police on Thursday detained 24 people for attending a commemoration ceremony in May for three left-wing, revolutionary students who were executed in 1972,...

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