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Erdoğan’s outlandish promises reach outer space

Cevheri Güven Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced the “National Space Program,” a 10-item list that includes landing a shuttle on the moon and...

Turkey’s brain drain: Young generation sees no future in the country

Alin Ozinian The emigration of well-educated and skilled individuals from Turkey to Western countries has been attracting greater media attention, particularly after recent economic and...

Germany approved nearly half of asylum applications from Turkish citizens in 2020

Nearly 50 percent of the asylum applications filed in Germany by Turkish citizens in 2020 were approved, according to the German Interior Ministry, Deutsche...

Turkey restores parliamentary membership of opposition lawmaker

The Turkish Parliament on Thursday reinstated the parliamentary membership of Enis Berberoğlu, a politician from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) who was...

200,000 doses of ‘missing’ COVID-19 vaccine allegedly received by people close to AKP

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Murat Emir has claimed that nearly 200,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine received from China are "missing"...

Turkey sees record rise in number of civil servants under AKP rule

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which promised to downsize state institutions to reduce public spending when it first came to power in...

Nearly half of Turks want to live or study abroad, survey reveals

A total of 47.3 percent of Turks, including 34.3 percent of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voters and 43 percent of supporters...

Turkey rejects US appeal to release civil society leader Kavala

Turkey on Thursday rejected a US call to release jailed civil society leader Osman Kavala, accusing Washington of interference, Agence France-Presse reported. Kavala, a businessman...

3 Turkish soldiers killed in northern Iraq

Three Turkish soldiers have died in a new offensive against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Agence France-Press reported,...

European rights court delivers verdict in Kurdish politicians’ case after 14 years

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has delivered its verdict in the case of 10 politicians from the now-closed People’s Democracy Party (HADEP)...

European lawmakers stand with prominent human rights activist Gergerlioğlu

A group of European lawmakers, academics and activists expressed solidarity with human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu and...

Erdoğan’s call for constitution revamp shakes up Turkish politics

Four years after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan assumed sweeping powers, he has wrong-footed his opponents once again by calling for a new constitution,...

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