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Turkey has talks with Chinese EV manufacturers for factory investments: report

Turkey is in negotiations with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers BYD Co. and Chery Automobile Co Ltd. for factory investments in the country, a...

Iraqi Kurdistan’s security forces arrest senior ISIL figure after 5-year stay in Turkey

Iraqi Kurdistan’s security forces announced on Friday the capture of Soqrat Khalil Ismail, a senior Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) figure...

Ankara court’s Kobani trial verdict fuels Kurdish protests

An Ankara court's decision to hand down lengthy sentences to dozens of Kurdish politicians, including imprisoned leaders Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, in the...

Conscripts sentenced to life in retrial over coup charges

Turkish authorities have rearrested and sent to prison four former conscripts who were sentenced to life in prison in a retrial related to a...

Ankara court issues lengthy sentences for Kurdish politicians in Kobani trial

An Ankara court on Thursday issued a verdict in the long-running Kobani trial and handed down lengthy prison sentences for dozens of Kurdish politicians,...

Turkey records dramatic decline in its fertility rate: official data

Data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on birth statistics has revealed an alarming decline in the country’s total fertility rate from 2001 to...

Erdoğan appoints controversial figure as Turkey’s top prosecutor

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed a controversial judge at the Supreme Court of Appeals who was behind a recent crisis between the...

Erdoğan’s crackdown does not spare minors: Teenagers recount trauma of police custody

Two teenage girls detained last week in a police operation focused on alleged members of Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by Turkish President...

İstanbul court rejects Kavala’s request for a retrial

An İstanbul court has for a third time rejected a request for a retrial for jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, the Birgün daily...

RSF calls on Turkish gov’t to abandon controversial ‘agents of influence’ legislation

Paris-based press organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Turkish government to abandon a proposed amendment on “agents of influence,” warning about...

Eurovision winner’s pink skirt confirms ‘degeneration’ of the West: Erdoğan’s far-right ally

Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has condemned Eurovision 2024, calling the...

Turkey detains 544 in major operation targeting Gülen followers

Turkey has escalated the mass detention of people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, detaining 544 individuals across the country in a...

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