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Turkish pop music producer dies after fall from high-rise apartment building in İstanbul

Turkish music producer and former singer Erol Köse died on Monday after falling from the 16th floor of a building in İstanbul, with prosecutors...

DEM Party calls for legal steps, official status for Öcalan during Nevruz celebrations

Senior figures from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) over the weekend called for concrete legal steps to advance a renewed...

Turkey’s ruling party to tighten control over opposition-run municipalities

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is preparing what the pro-government media describe as a new reform package that would tighten financial and...

Turkey unlikely to return to FATF’s grey list, former financial crimes chief says

Turkey is unlikely to be put back on the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list as the watchdog’s fifth-round mutual evaluation moves toward its...

Jailed opposition mayor faces up to 35 years in prison

Prosecutors in İstanbul have drafted an indictment seeking up to 35 years in prison for jailed Beyoğlu Mayor İnan Güney, a member of Turkey's...

HRW urges Turkey to lift courtroom restrictions in İmamoğlu trial

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Turkish authorities to remove restrictions on lawyers, journalists and the public seeking to follow the trial of...

Turkey arrests journalist critical of gov’t on charge of ‘disseminating false information’

A journalist from a Turkish newspaper critical of the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was put in pretrial detention on Sunday for allegedly...

3 Turks, including serviceman, among dead in Qatar helicopter crash

Three Turkish nationals, including a serviceman, were among those on board a helicopter that crashed in Qatar’s territorial waters, along with three Qatari servicemen,...

Pregnant Syrian mother, 5 children die in container fire in Turkey

A pregnant Syrian woman and her five young children died when a fire ripped through containers housing agricultural workers near the southwestern resort of...

Iran not letting citizens cross into Turkey: minister

The number of Iranians crossing into Turkey has dropped by about a third since the start of the Iran war, with Tehran now restricting...

Turkey earns worst due process score globally after sharp decline in freedoms under Erdoğan: Freedom House

Turkey has experienced one of the sharpest declines in freedoms globally over the past two decades under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, receiving the lowest...

UN panel raises concerns over violation of women’s rights in post-coup Turkey

Orhan Sait Berber Concerns about the violation of women's rights in Turkey, including the detention of pregnant and ill inmates and children living in prison...

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