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Turkey’s encouragement of informers results in more than 116,000 false tips in 2020

Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has announced that 116,170 out of 167,719 tip-offs received by Turkish prosecutors in 2020 were false, throwing into question...

Erdoğan denies reports about Cabinet shakeup following minister’s resignation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has denied reports suggesting that there would be a Cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of finance minister Berat Albayrak. Speaking...

Real actors behind July 15 coup attempt are still walking free, newly released journalist says

Müyesser Yıldız, a journalist who was on Monday released pending trial after 155 days of incarceration on charges of political and military espionage, ...

Erdoğan ordered state-run agency to keep silent on Albayrak’s resignation, journalist claims

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prevented the country’s state-run Anadolu news agency from covering news of the resignation of Berat Albayrak, who is also...

İstanbul has left Wuhan behind, needs urgent lockdown, doctors group warns

The İstanbul Chamber of Physicians (İTO) has warned that Turkey’s most populous city of İstanbul now has more coronavirus infections than the number of...

German couple with Turkish roots behind coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech, Pfizer

The coronavirus vaccine for which German pharma company BioNTech and its US partner, Pfizer, are on the verge of seeking emergency use authorization was...

Tough times were in store for Albayrak under a Biden presidency

The name of Berat Albayrak, the son in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who last week resigned as Turkey’s treasury and finance minister,...

Turkey loses 13 healthcare workers to COVID-19 in 3 days

Thirteen healthcare professionals have died over the past three days while combatting the coronavirus pandemic, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) announced on Tuesday. “We are...

Active duty soldiers among 48 detained over Gülen links

Turkish police teams on Monday detained 48 people suspected of links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...

What kind of a bureaucrat is Turkey’s new central bank governor?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday again replaced the governor of the central bank after a previous ousting only 16 months earlier, appointing...

Erdoğan appoints former minister to the helm of Turkish economy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday appointed former transport and development minister Lütfi Elvan to replace his son-in-law Berat Albayrak as the country’s...

European court rules Turkey violated rights of Cumhuriyet journalists

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the right to liberty and security as well as the right to...

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