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Turkish intelligence agency founded PKK to counter leftist militants: neo-nationalist leader

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) established the now-outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to neutralize leftist revolutionary groups in the country, claimed Doğu Perinçek, leader...

Turkish courts sentence 3 Kurdish mayors on terror-related charges

Turkish courts have sentenced three elected Kurdish mayors to prison on terrorism-related charges in separate trials, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing local...

AKUT co-founder Nasuh Mahruki arrested over social media posts

Nasuh Mahruki, founder and former president of the Turkish Search and Rescue Association (AKUT), was arrested pending trial of an investigation of his social...

Turkish media tycoon Acun Ilıcalı under investigation over illegal betting

Turkish authorities are investigating media mogul Acun Ilıcalı, owner of English football club Hull City, founder of the TV8 broadcaster and a vice president...

Turkey police seize 3.2 million captagon pills

Turkish police said Wednesday that they had seized 3.2 million captagon pills, an amphetamine-like stimulant plaguing the Middle East, in a southeastern province near...

Baykar UCAV conducts first flight from Turkey’s ‘drone carrier’ TCG Anadolu

The Bayraktar TB3, produced by Turkey’s leading drone maker Baykar, has become the first unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) to successfully take off and...

Turkey’s top court found rights violations in more than 2,500 applications in first 9 months of 2024

Turkey’s Constitutional Court found at least one violation of human rights in each of 2,529 applications in the first nine months of this year,...

Turkish-American Dr. Oz, criticized for ties to Erdoğan, tapped by Trump to run Medicare

US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Mehmet Oz, a Turkish-American celebrity doctor with ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had been...

3 senior Hamas officials in Turkey among those hit by US sanctions

At a time when claims are surfacing about the relocation of senior members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas to Turkey from Qatar, the...

Belarusian twins go missing on mountain in central Turkey

Mountain rescue teams are searching for two Belarusian sisters who have been missing since Monday after going climbing in central Turkey, Agence France-Presse reported,...

Int’l press advocacy groups urge Turkish gov’t to withdraw espionage amendment

Prominent international media freedom groups called on the Turkish government to withdraw proposed amendments to an anti-espionage law in Turkey shortly after the government...

Turkey detains 459 over alleged Gülen links in largest operation since cleric’s death

In a significant escalation of an ongoing crackdown on individuals alleged to have links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya...

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