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[OPINION] Mastermind of modern tyranny: Spy chief is exporting Turkey’s authoritarian blueprint

Yasemin Aydın* When a head of intelligence kneels to pray in a historic mosque, it’s rarely just about faith. İbrahim Kalın, Turkey's intelligence chief, used...

Turkey’s tourism revenue hit all-time high in 2024, exceeding $61 billion

Turkey's tourism revenue soared last year, increasing 8.3 percent and exceeding $61.1 billion, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) showed on Friday. In the...

Turkey has more than a third of all cases pending before European rights court

Approximately 21,600 applications from Turkey are pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), making it the highest case-count country in 2024, comprising...

Top engineers union puts blame on tourism ministry in preliminary report on deadly hotel fire

A preliminary reported drafted by a leading engineering union in Turkey has pointed to the country’s tourism ministry as being responsible for inspecting the...

3 Turks killed at Israel border shed light on little-known labor pipeline

Three Turkish men trying to enter Israel illegally were killed by a drone strike near the Lebanon-Israel border, highlighting a little-known labor pipeline that...

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...

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