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[OPINION] Following COVID-19 and overshadowed by Ukraine: France’s presidential election

Ali Dinçer* This Sunday, the French will cast their ballots for the first round of their presidential election, which comes after Emmanuel Macron’s turbulent, five-year-term...

Number of Turkish billionaires on Forbes’ list drops by 3 in 2022

Forbes has listed 24 Turks among a total of 2,668 billionaires in its 36th annual ranking of the planet’s richest people, down from 27...

20 former public servants detained over alleged Gülen links in İstanbul

Turkish police teams on Friday detained 20 former public servants in raids in İstanbul due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, the...

Opposition leader prevented from questioning Turkey’s high meat prices at state agency

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was denied entry to the headquarters of the Meat and Milk Board...

Malta customs seizes 800 kg of cocaine in ship en route to Turkey from Colombia

Customs officials in Malta have seized 800 kilograms of cocaine on a ship that was en route to the southern Turkish province of Mersin...

Turkish Parliament spent $520K on electricity in first 2 months of 2022 as ‘commercial user’

Considered a commercial user, the Turkish Parliament was billed TL 7.6 million ($520,407) for electricity usage in the first two months of 2022, the Sözcü...

Turkish, British, Italian defence ministers to discuss Ukraine in İstanbul

The defense ministers of Turkey, Britain and Italy will meet in İstanbul on Friday to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and security ties between...

Activist, basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom receives 2022 Courage Award

Enes Kanter Freedom, an activist and basketball player who was dropped from the NBA reportedly for speaking out against human rights abuses worldwide, received...

[ANALYSIS] Does Turkey need to revise its naval strategy for the Black Sea?

Fatih Yurtsever* Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 and subsequent military developments have significantly altered the geopolitical landscape in the Black Sea region. The...

HRW calls on Turkey not to transfer Khashoggi trial to Saudi Arabia

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Turkish government on Wednesday to reverse a plan approved by the justice minister and rubber-stamped by a...

Turkey says Bucha killings overshadow Russia-Ukraine talks

Images of bodies found in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and other areas near Kyiv in the wake of a Russian pullback have scuppered...

Top court finds rights violation in passport revocation of exiled journalist’s wife

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the cancellation of the passport of the wife of an exiled journalist due to her husband's actions constituted...

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