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Turkey pays nearly $3.5 mln of Somalia’s IMF debt: Official Gazette

The Turkish government has settled a part of Somalia’s debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by allocating nearly $3.5 million to a fund...

Turkish government circles support Trump while opposition favors Biden

The presidential election in the US is being closely followed in Turkey and among the Turkish community living in the US. While supporters of...

26 teachers detained in southeast Turkey as part of operation targeting Kurdish group

Turkish police officers on Friday detained 26 teachers, all members of the Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-Sen), as part of an investigation into...

İHD report: Turkey forced 160 people to become informants in first 10 months of 2020

A total of 160 people in Turkey were forced to become informants by government officers who used coercion and threats in addition to abduction...

Civil servants among 93 sought on detention warrants over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 93 individuals, some of whom are civil servants, over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by...

Germany may follow French example and ban Turkish ultranationalist group

Several political parties in the German parliament have called for a ban on the activities of a Turkish ultranationalist group in the country, known...

Number of coronavirus cases among children has nearly doubled in Turkey: professor

Elif Dağlı, a professor of pulmonology, has said the number of coronavirus infections among children in Turkey has almost doubled since the gradual opening of...

In his quest to rein in social media, Erdoğan encounters an unfamiliar resistance

Turkey has fined Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok TL 10 million ($ 1.18 million) each. According to a recently enacted law, continued...

Kurdish deputy among 65 from Turkey seeking asylum in Greece: report

A Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament is among 65 people including other Kurds and former public servants who have fled government persecution in...

Turkish Airlines lost $614 mln in first 9 months of 2020: report

Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) recorded a net loss of TL 5.2 billion ($614 million) during the first nine months of 2020...

Turkey hands down 4,154 prison sentences in 289 coup trials so far

Turkish courts have thus far handed down sentences to 4,154 defendants in 137 cases involving a failed coup in 2016, according to the state-run...

Journalist Baransu had ‘terror motives’ in publishing state documents, court says

A Mersin court that handed down a prison sentence of 19 years, six months to jailed investigative journalist Mehmet Baransu on three separate charges...

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