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‘Exodus’ movie on global refugee crisis wins Best Drama Feature award at London festival

“Exodus,” a movie focusing on the stories of a group of people forced to flee Turkey to seek asylum in Europe, has won the...

ECtHR notifies Turkey of another 1,000 applications over Gülen-linked convictions after landmark ruling

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has notified Ankara of another 1,000 applications on its docket for convictions of Gülen movement membership over...

Poverty line for a family of four in Turkey rises to $1,790

Turkey’s poverty line has risen to 58,200 lira ($1,790), as millions in the country struggle to get by on a minimum wage of 17,002...

2023 was a year of increasing pressure, censorship for Turkish journalists: report

Turkish journalists are experiencing unprecedented pressure and censorship that has seen hundreds of reporters prosecuted, according to the annual report released by the Journalists’...

3 Kurdish journalists arrested, 6 released under judicial supervision

Three out of nine Kurdish journalists who were detained earlier this week have been referred to court for arrest and subsequently arrested after testifying...

EP Turkey rapporteur criticizes Ankara for labelling people with Bank Asya accounts as ‘terrorists’

The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, has criticized the Turkish government for labelling people who had accounts at now-closed Islamic lender Bank...

Turkey’s own record of freedoms questioned amid Gaza-related criticism of US

Criticism expressed by university administrators in Turkey, where academic freedom and freedom of speech have sharply declined in the past decade, regarding the state...

Perpetrator of İstiklal bombing gets 7 life sentences plus 1,794 years in prison

Alham Albashir, the prime suspect in a deadly bombing that ripped through the busy İstikal Street in central in İstanbul in November 2022, has...

Top Turkish imam under the spotlight after he fails to understand Modern Standard Arabic

The head of Turkey's religious authority is under the spotlight after he failed to understand a journalist's question in Modern Standard Arabic, which is...

Families of victims vow to continue fight after court convicts 9 over Çorlu train disaster

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced nine railroad officials to varying prison terms in connection with a 2018 train derailment that killed 25 people...

ICU patients left to die in undamaged hospital in quake-stricken Hatay: report

Authorities at a hospital in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, which was hit by two major earthquakes last year, allegedly left some 20 patients...

Prosecutor demands sentences for journalists in retrial due to Gülen links

A public prosecutor in the retrial of seven journalists has demanded prison sentences for them on terrorism-related charges due to their alleged links to...

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