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Expelled lawmaker ordered to surrender to judicial authorities in 10 days

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a politician and renowned human rights activist who was expelled from the Turkish Parliament last week, has received a notification from...

Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention challenged at top court

A Turkish civil society organization has taken a presidential decree that pulled Turkey out of an international treaty to combat domestic violence to the...

German university refuses to comment on guest theologian’s anti-Semitic remarks

Cevheri Güven The University of Münster has responded to Turkish Minute’s inquiry about its invitation to Professor Mustafa Öztürk, who in Turkey had made headlines...

Erdoğan accused of bypassing Parliament via presidential decrees

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been receiving growing criticism for resorting to presidential decrees as a means of bypassing parliament, issuing 71 such...

Turkish lira, stocks sink after Erdoğan fires top banker

The Turkish lira and stocks plunged Monday as officials tried to stem the carnage caused by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's abrupt dismissal of his...

Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş accuses Erdoğan of power grab

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking to ensure victory in the next election by "illegally" trying to ban Turkey's pro-Kurdish party, its former leader...

Turkey’s Kurds protest political repression in New Year celebration

Tens of thousands of people gathered in the city of Diyarbakır in southeast Turkey on Sunday to celebrate the Kurdish New Year and protest...

Turkey tries to calm market turmoil after top banker sacked

Turkish officials on Monday tried to calm the turmoil triggered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's abrupt decision to sack his reformist central bank chief,...

Biden ‘disappointed’ as Turkey quits domestic violence treaty

US President Joe Biden said he was "deeply disappointed" Sunday after Turkey withdrew from the İstanbul Convention, the world's first binding treaty to prevent...

[UPDATE] Expelled pro-Kurdish MP released after brief detention in dawn raid

Turkish authorities on Sunday briefly detained a pro-Kurdish opposition MP who had refused to leave parliament for several days after his parliamentary status was...

Ownership of İstanbul’s iconic Gezi Park transferred to pro-gov’t foundation

The ownership of Gezi Park, one of the only green spaces in İstanbul’s center, which was the focal point of mass protests in 2013,...

Turkish nationalist fantasies and ‘enlarged Turkey maps’

Alin Ozinian Misvak, the most popular ultra-Islamist humor magazine in Turkey, published a map of an enlarged Turkey last week with a comment that reads,...

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