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Turkey ‘must be held to account’ for violent acts by Erdoğan’s guards in DC in 2017: petition

Republican and Democratic members of the Hellenic Caucus, the Armenian Caucus, the Congressional Hellenic Israel Alliance Caucus and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission...

Swedish public radio ending broadcasts in Kurdish for ‘financial reasons’

Sweden's public radio broadcaster, Sveriges Radio, has announced that it will halt its broadcasts in three languages including Kurdish to cut costs, the Erbil-based...

US says no change in its view about incompatibility of S-400s with F-35 program

A White House official has said the United States still finds Turkey’s deployment of a Russian missile defense system problematic and that the country’s...

Prominent Turkish-Jewish author Mario Levi dies at 66

Mario Levi, a Turkish-Jewish writer, journalist and professor of communications, died in the early hours of Wednesday at the age of 66, the Buart...

Erdoğan appoints controversial judge as member of Turkey’s top court

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Yılmaz Akçil, a judge known for his controversial decisions, as a member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, in...

Turkey’s tourism revenue surged in 2023, reaching $54.3 billion: TurkStat

Turkey's tourism revenue skyrocketed in 2023, reaching a record high of $54.3 billion with an increase of 17 percent over the previous year, according...

Turkey plunges from 101st to 115th place in TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2023

Turkey has taken 14 steps back and was ranked 115th among 180 countries with a score of 34 out of 100, the lowest in...

DAVA executives in Germany deny being an ‘offshoot’ of Erdoğan’s party

Two executives from a Turkish-Islamist political association in Germany that is in the process of establishing a party named Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und...

Canada lifts ban on military exports to Turkey

Canada announced Monday it would no longer bar certain arms exports to Turkey, a move that comes approximately a week after Ankara ratified Sweden's...

Turkey’s income distribution gap widened in 2023

The portion of total income going to the wealthiest 20 percent of the population in Turkey increased to 49.8 percent, local media reported on...

Veteran journalist released from prison on judicial probation

Prominent Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilcak, who was sent to prison in December on conviction of libeling a public prosecutor, has been released on judicial...

Kurdish journalist facing terrorism charges goes on hunger strike in jail

Dicle Müftüoğlu, a Kurdish journalist who was arrested in May on terrorism-related charges, has gone on a hunger strike to draw attention to the...

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