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Turkey to imprison LGBT advocates, criminalize same-sex ceremonies in new bill: report

Turkey's justice ministry is drafting legislation that would imprison people for publicly praising LGBT identity, criminalize same-sex engagement and wedding ceremonies and impose sweeping...

8 detained in illegal betting probe in Turkey, football club in southeast seized

Turkish police have detained eight suspects as part of an illegal betting investigation based in İstanbul, seizing Diyarbekirspor, a professional football club in southeastern...

17 arrested in Turkey over alleged OnlyFans income, money laundering

Seventeen people have been arrested in Turkey on allegations that they earned money through explicit online content and laundered the proceeds through property and...

Germany warns citizens of possible detention over social media posts when in Turkey

Germany has reiterated in its latest travel advisory for Turkey that statements, social media activity or political expression considered lawful in Germany could lead...

Turkey considers bill mandating social media identity checks, expanding content-removal powers

A Turkish government bill expected to be introduced in parliament in the coming days would require identity verification for social media users, impose new...

Turkey sends drilling vessel to Somalia after F-16 deployment, reported tank transfer

Turkey sent a deep-sea drilling ship to Somalia on Sunday for its first offshore exploration mission outside Turkey’s maritime zone, after the deployment of...

3 defendants rearrested in Turkish Parliament intern abuse case

A Turkish court has ordered the rearrest of four defendants in a case concerning the alleged sexual abuse of high school student interns working...

Majority of people in Turkey oppose bridge, highway privatization, survey finds

More than half of people in Turkey oppose the privatization of public assets such as bridges and highways and believe previous privatizations benefited certain...

5 ISIL militants who killed 3 police officers in Turkey had been acquitted months earlier

Five of the six Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who shot three police officers dead in a pre-dawn raid in...

Co-founder of Erdoğan’s AKP says party’s ‘virtue’ promise failed as Turks abandon Islam, prayers

Bülent Arınç, a founder of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a former speaker of the Turkish Parliament, has said...

Turks fear earthquakes but lack basic preparedness: survey

Nearly 60 percent of Turkey's population is anxious about earthquakes, yet three out of every four households do not have an emergency kit ready,...

Pro-Kurdish party leader says jailed PKK founder’s freedom inseparable from peace efforts

A leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said on Friday that Turkey cannot pursue peace with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while keeping...

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