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Women detained for insulting Erdoğan on Women’s Day released from custody

Thirteen women who were detained on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan due to the slogans they chanted during a Women’s Day...

AKP continues to bleed voters, ally MHP below threshold, new poll shows

The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been ruling Turkey as a single-party government since 2002, would have had a nationwide vote of...

Aide says Erdoğan, his team don’t care much about call from Biden

Amid debates about the lack of a phone call from US President Joe Biden, who reached out to his counterparts across the world after...

Turkey plans to host Afghan peace talks in April

Turkey plans to host an Afghan peace conference in İstanbul in April, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Friday, ahead of a deadline for...

Turkey condemns California’s release of diplomat killer

Turkey on Friday strongly condemned California Governor Gavin Newsom's decision not to try to halt the planned release of an Armenian man jailed for...

Turks grapple with poverty as inflation bites

Gülay Avşar is a regular at a market in Ankara's old town, where prices are more reasonable than most other places around the Turkish...

Turkey among top 3 countries with steepest decline in liberal democracy index: report

Turkey is among the countries that “autocratized” the most, together with Poland and Hungary, according to the “Democracy Report 2021,” which was published by...

Mother and son stage sit-in protest for just trial in political murder case

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have been protesting in front of the Şanlıurfa Courthouse in an attempt to seek justice for three...

Turkey’s AKP rejects motion calling China’s treatment of Uyghurs ‘genocide’

A motion calling the Chinese treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority in northwestern Xinjiang province “genocide” was voted down onWednesday by Turkey’s ruling Justice...

Turkey’s far-right MHP insists on firm control over online news sites

Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has submitted a parliamentary bill aiming to bring increased measures against what it called manipulation on digital news...

People in Turkey with non-Turkish names feel like ‘exotic animals in a zoo’

Alin Ozinian If you live in Turkey as part of a non-Muslim minority, your name will be the first thing that makes you visible to...

Opposition MP requests inquiry into attacks on journalists, politicians in Turkey under AKP rule

A lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has requested the opening of a parliamentary inquiry into a series of physical assaults...

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