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Turkey ‘strongly condemns attempted coup’ in Armenia

Turkey on Thursday "strongly condemned" what it described as an attempted coup in neighboring Armenia, where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was facing calls by...

Men dominate the TV news circuit in Turkey with 77 percent of all guest appearances

Seventy-seven percent of a total of 6,114 guests appearing on news and talk shows on Turkish TV are male, research conducted for the Association...

Amnesty calls on CoE to tackle systemic failures enabling arbitrary detention of Kavala, Demirtaş

In a public letter addressed to the foreign ministers of Council of Europe (CoE) member states, Amnesty International on Tuesday asked for their support for...

Key figure in arms smuggling to Syria was protected by Turkish intelligence

Cevheri Güven New allegations have surfaced that Heysem Topalca, a key figure in arms smuggling from Turkey to Syria who died on Feb. 10 in...

The return of an Ottoman-Armenian feminist: ‘Zabel’ by BGST

Alin Ozinian First staged in 2015 “Zabel,” a play about Ottoman-Armenian author and feminist Zabel Yesayan, returned to audiences last week. Written by Aysel Yıldırım...

AKP convention attendees offered free COVID-19 tests, opposition MP claims

Participants of a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) convention held in Ankara on Feb. 17 were offered free COVID-19 tests regardless of the...

Top court rules against putting state-run news agency under Erdoğan’s control

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled against a presidential decree that put Turkey’s oldest media institution, the Anadolu news agency, under the control of the...

Turkey sentences 3 to prison over Ghosn escape from Japan

An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced three Turks to four years, two months in prison for helping smuggle former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in...

Lawyer, detained for insulting AKP politician, arrested on Erdoğan insult charges

A lawyer who was detained earlier this week over a tweet he posted about controversial remarks made by a ruling Justice and Development Party...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for torture of Kurdish party chairman in police custody

Turkey’s top court has ruled in favor of İbrahim Halil Baran, chairman of the Kurdish Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD), who submitted an individual application to...

Erdoğan expected to carry out Cabinet reshuffle within a month

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to carry out a Cabinet reshuffle to improve the tarnished image of his ruling Justice and Development...

Turkey detains scores of active duty TSK officers over Gülen links

Turkish police on Wednesday detained more than 140 people, most of whom are active duty Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) officers and former military cadets,...

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