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Turkey faces no risk of returning to FATF grey list, finance minister says

Turkey faces no risk of being put back on the Financial Action Task Force’s “grey list,” Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek said, noting that the...

Turkey hosts 5 of Europe’s most polluted cities, eastern city of Iğdır ranks worst

Turkey was home to five of Europe’s 10 most polluted cities in 2025, with the eastern city of Iğdır ranking as the most polluted,...

Turkey-operated oil tanker attacked in Black Sea, minister says

A Turkish-operated oil tanker was attacked early Thursday in the Black Sea, possibly by an unmanned surface vehicle, Turkey's Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said. "I...

Lawyers tell ECtHR Turkey has kept Kavala jailed on same discredited evidence despite Strasbourg rulings

Lawyers for imprisoned Turkish businessman and civil society figure Osman Kavala told the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday that Turkey has...

Critically ill Kurdish prisoner dies after repeated pleas for sentence suspension

Mehmet Edip Taşar, a critically ill, 70-year-old Kurdish prisoner, died in a hospital on Tuesday after authorities repeatedly denied his release despite his worsening...

Turkey detains 25 people, including civil servants, over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities have detained 25 people, including current and former civil servants, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Turkish prosecutors order detention of 9 despite ECtHR ruling on messaging app use

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of nine people for using an encrypted messaging app despite rulings by the European Court of Human Rights...

Turkish bar associations, press groups condemn arrest of journalists as ‘alarming’

Bar associations and press freedom groups in Turkey have condemned the arrest of journalists Alican Uludağ and İsmail Arı, warning that their jailing poses...

ISIL-linked networks form closed communities, online structures in Turkey: report

Networks linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other Salafi groups have developed localized community structures in Turkey, supported...

İstanbul court jails 9 for spreading PKK propaganda in probe of Kurdish Nevruz celebrations

A court in İstanbul jailed nine people pending trial on Wednesday on charges of disseminating propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during...

3 land registry officials arrested in probe over access to justice minister’s property records

Two land registry directors in Çorum and Afyonkarahisar and a land registry official in the southern province of Antalya have been arrested as part...

Suspected gunman in murder of Turkish whistleblower detained in France

French police have detained a suspect that Dutch authorities say was the gunman in the killing of Turkish whistleblower Cemil Önal, a former finance...

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