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Minority language newspapers in Turkey in financial bottleneck as state aid cut

The prospects of the survival of minority language newspapers in Turkey look dimmer after the country’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK) failed to make a...

Turkey’s former finance minister Albayrak resigns from Wealth Fund

Former Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak, a son-in-law to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has resigned from his position as the deputy chair...

Fifth anniversary of Kurdish lawyer’s murder commemorated on social media amid pandemic

Tahir Elçi, a prominent Kurdish human rights activist and former head of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, was remembered by his family members, colleagues and...

Opposition leader slams Turkish government for shortage of COVID-19, influenza vaccines

Ali Babacan, leader of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), has criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government for...

Erdoğan’s army

Cevheri Güven After Turkey’s switch to a presidential system of governance, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan embarked on a major reorganization of the country’s security structure...

Turkey’s judicial council rewards judges and prosecutors for their role in gov’t-led prosecutions: report

Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Friday named 11 judges and prosecutors, many of whom played critical roles in government-led prosecutions, as...

4 detained in police raid of Kurdish party branch, other locations in eastern Turkey

Four people were detained when Turkish police raided the provincial office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and various other locations in the...

Turkish MP hints at fraud in national lottery after same numbers drawn twice in row

An opposition lawmaker has hinted at fraud in Turkey’s national lottery, Milli Piyango, after four out of six numbers drawn separately on November 18...

Erdoğan says Kanal İstanbul project ready to be put out to bid

Turkish President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his government is prepared to move forward with the...

Approval rating of opposition ally alarmingly low among AKP voters, survey reveals

Approximately 20 percent of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voters do not have a favorable view of Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist...

Former cadets, officers among 54 detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Friday detained 54 people as part of an İstanbul-based operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement. The Turkish government accuses the...

Minister accuses Kurdish villagers allegedly tortured by Turkish soldiers of aiding terrorists

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has claimed that Kurdish villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were allegedly tortured by Turkish security forces in...

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