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Syrian Kurds say 12 civilians killed in 2 days of Turkish airstrikes

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday that two days of Turkish airstrikes had killed 12 civilians in Kurdish-held areas of northern...

Celebrity manager’s arrest seen as Erdoğan’s move to control cultural sphere

Critics view the recent arrest of a prominent celebrity manager in Turkey as a politically motivated move to expand President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s control...

[OPINION] The shattered world order: Where do we go from here?

Tarık Toros* We are living through an age of chaos and transformation, where old norms crumble and new realities emerge. The question is no longer...

Ex-police chief debunks coup claims against 2013 graft probe in interview published after his death

Former deputy police commissioner Hüseyin Korkmaz says in a final recorded interview, posted on YouTube after his death earlier this month, that the December...

[OPINION] Germany at a crossroads: crisis of conservatism and its meaning for democracy

Yasemin Aydın* As Germany heads to early elections in February, I find myself asking a question I never thought I’d consider: Could the Germany I...

Pro-Kurdish and socialist politicians, journalists among 34 arrested on terrorism charges

Authorities in Turkey have arrested 34 people, including politicians, journalists and activists, on charges of membership in a terrorist organization following a series of...

Apartment building collapse in Turkey kills 2, 4 detained in probe

Rescue teams recovered two bodies and pulled three survivors from the rubble of a four-story apartment building in Konya province, as authorities detained four...

14 detained in Turkish ski resort fire investigation

Fourteen people have now been detained as part of a criminal investigation into a fire at a Turkish ski resort hotel that killed 78,...

[OPINION] Small Trumps, big shifts: the global populist wave

Adem Yavuz Arslan* As a Turkish journalist living in exile, I have had the unsettling experience of observing political changes from a distance — watching...

Stay or go? The dilemma of Turkey’s Syrian refugees

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. But for many others still living in the country,...

Turkey’s tourism minister faces growing calls for resignation over deadly ski resort fire

Following a tragic hotel fire in the popular ski resort of Kartalkaya in Turkey's northwestern Bolu province this week, Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy...

[OPINION] Turkey’s attempts at reconciliation with the Kurds: a path forward

*Professor İbrahim Özdemir  Resolution of the Kurdish issue, a term prevalent in Turkey’s public discourse referring to the demand for equal rights by the country’s Kurdish...

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