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İmamoğlu says early elections ‘only way out’ amid mounting pressure on dissidents

Popular İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has said holding early elections is the key to eliminating the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) growing pressure...

Number of Syrians returning home after Assad’s ouster exceeds 81,000: minister

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Tuesday that more than 81,000 Syrians have returned home since December 9 following the ouster of Syrian...

US announces arrest of suspected Turkish ‘terrorist’ in immigration crackdown

The White House has announced the arrest of a Turkish national described as “a known or suspected terrorist” amid a nationwide crackdown on illegal...

Gov’t removes another Kurdish mayor from office in SE Turkey

Amid an ongoing crackdown on opposition municipalities in Turkey, the Interior Ministry has removed a Kurdish mayor from office in the southeastern province of...

Syrian Kurds say 18 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 18 civilians in Kurdish-held areas of northern...

3 journalists detained for revealing phone call with court-appointed expert witness

Three journalists have been detained in Turkey after journalist Barış Pehlivan aired a phone call between himself and a court-appointed expert witness whom İstanbul...

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...

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