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Turkey’s under fire pro-Kurdish party risks ban

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party is facing a political and legal onslaught that could see it banned and its MPs jailed as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Opposition leader claims domestic violence increased in Turkey after İstanbul Convention

Temel Karamollaoğlu, chairman of the Islamist opposition Felicity Party (SP), has claimed that cases of violence targeting women increased in Turkey following the adoption...

Only 1 Turkish university makes it into top 500 universities in QS ranking

At a time when there are growing concerns about declining academic freedoms in Turkey, the İstanbul-based Koç University is the only university from Turkey...

Turkey’s unemployment rate fell to 12.2 percent in January

Turkey's unemployment rate fell to 12.2 percent in January, and the worker participation rate rose toward 50 percent from a month earlier, Reuters reported,...

Twitter suspends account of Boğaziçi University rector’s office amid ongoing protests

Social media company Twitter has suspended the account of the Boğaziçi University rector's office after the prestigious school experienced more than two months of...

Report shows gun ownership on the rise in Turkey

A report drafted by Turkey’s Gendarmerie General Command has revealed an increasing demand for gun ownership in the country, with a 34 percent increase...

Turkish presidency takes propaganda war to next stage with truck offering ‘UAV flight experience’

A truck transformed into a digital and technology platform by the Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency offers a flight experience with an unmanned...

82-year-old philanthropist with Alzheimer’s condemned to die in prison

The daughter of 82-year-old Yusuf Bekmezci, a businessman and philanthropist who was jailed on alleged links to the Gülen movement, said her ailing father...

Opposition leaders call Erdoğan’s human rights action plan into question

Turkey’s opposition leaders have expressed doubts about a human rights action plan unveiled by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last week, at a time...

Turkey sentences 5 to life over 2016 Russian envoy killing

A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced five suspects to life in prison over the 2016 murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, Agence...

Demirtaş warns against closure of HDP, urges opposition to form an alliance

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), warned the Turkish government against outlawing the party in an interview...

Turkey registers worrying rise in daily number of coronavirus cases

Although Turkey eased coronavirus restrictions at the beginning of March, the country has been registering worrying increases in the daily number of coronavirus cases,...

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