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Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for arrest of 8 former pro-Kurdish party officials

Turkey’s top court has ruled in favor of eight out of 11 former officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who submitted individual...

Photos reveal suspicious links between Turkish envoy, alleged hit team members

Photos have emerged showing a member of an alleged Turkish hit team posing for a photo with the Turkish ambassador to France at the...

Hundreds of Uyghurs protest Chinese minister’s Turkey visit

Nearly 1,000 Uyghurs rallied in İstanbul on Thursday as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Turkish counterpart for talks expected to focus...

Turkey’s far-right leader slams Die Linke MP for calling MHP members ‘fascists’

Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and an ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Wednesday slammed a lawmaker...

Dismissed academic turned laborer killed in construction site accident

Mustafa Çamaş, a prominent bioengineering professor fired from his job by a government decree in the aftermath of a July 15, 2016 coup attempt...

Turkey’s Erdoğan is on a rampage against rights and democracy, says HRW

The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is escalating its assaults on critics, parliamentary democracy and women’s rights, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) in...

Turkey’s central bank governor accused of laundering money for mafia: report

The newly appointed governor of the Turkish Central Bank was accused of laundering money for the mafia and a neo-nationalist gang when he was...

Erdoğan urges Turks to put gold, foreign currency in banks to help economy

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday called on citizens of Turkey to put any foreign currency or gold they keep at home in banks...

Packed AKP meeting draws ire as Turkey’s daily COVID-19 cases exceed 26K

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has sparked anger from people on social media for holding its 7th Ordinary Grand Congress in a...

Erdoğan removes parts about Istanbul treaty from his speech text

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who in a sudden move early Saturday took Turkey out of the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty against domestic...

Germany acknowledges ultranationalists’ increasing influence over Turkey’s AKP

The German federal government has said in response to a parliamentary question submitted by the Left Party that it is aware of the far-right...

Journalist sentenced to prison on terrorism charges in first hearing of trial

A journalist was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in the first hearing of her trial at a...

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