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Syria offensive heightens anxiety among Turkey’s Kurds

Turkey's Kurds are hoping that Ankara's bid to end a decades-long conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) won't be hurt by an...

70 pct of 4,800 minors jailed in Turkey have not yet been sentenced

Approximately 4,800 minors in Turkey aged 12 to 18 are being held in juvenile detention facilities, of which some 70 percent have not been...

Hrant Dink commemorated in İstanbul 19 years after his murder

Hundreds of people gathered in İstanbul on Monday to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the killing of Hrant Dink, the Armenian-Turkish journalist who was...

Pro-Kurdish party calls Ankara’s Syria policy ‘hypocrisy’ for backing Damascus against Kurds

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has accused Ankara of “political hypocrisy” on Syria, saying Turkey claims to pursue peace at...

Turkey shaken by another youth murder involving teenagers

Turkey has been shaken by another fatal stabbing involving teenagers after 17-year-old Atlas Çağlayan was killed during a dispute between two groups of young...

Turkish gov’t says Syria deal thwarted ‘coup attempt’ against Ankara’s peace process with PKK

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has welcomed a new agreement between Syria’s government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), saying the...

Turkey detains 7 suspects linked to Spain’s record cocaine seizure: minister

A Turkish government official has for the first time publicly addressed a record maritime seizure of cocaine carried out by Spain, announcing the detention...

Jailed PKK leader calls Syria clashes attempt to ‘sabotage’ peace talks

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), said recent deadly clashes in Syria between government forces and Kurdish fighters appear...

Turkey seizes football club, 8 companies in illegal betting, money laundering probe

Turkish authorities have seized control of top-division football club Eyüpspor and eight companies linked to its jailed president as part of an investigation into...

38 minors arrested over crimes allegedly committed by İstanbul youth gang

Turkish courts have ordered the arrest of 38 minors as part of an investigation into an İstanbul-based youth gang accused of carrying out armed...

Turkish opposition lawmaker claims Russia will net $180 billion from Akkuyu nuclear plant

A lawmaker from Turkey's main opposition party has said documents show Russia will make a net profit of more than $180 billion from Turkey’s...

Prominent scholar says Turkey–PKK peace talks likely to fail amid disputes over rights and security

A well-known scholar of Kurdish politics has warned that Turkey’s latest attempt to revive peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is...

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