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Cost of living remains Turkey’s top concern, TurkStat survey finds

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing issue for people in Turkey, according to the latest Life Satisfaction Survey released by the...

Turkey to imprison LGBT advocates, criminalize same-sex ceremonies in new bill: report

Turkey's justice ministry is drafting legislation that would imprison people for publicly praising LGBT identity, criminalize same-sex engagement and wedding ceremonies and impose sweeping...

[OPINION] Erdoğan reshapes Turkey’s electoral battlefield

Ömer Murat* Under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, elections are often decided long before ballots are cast, during a prolonged pre-election phase in which rivals...

Turkey considers bill mandating social media identity checks, expanding content-removal powers

A Turkish government bill expected to be introduced in parliament in the coming days would require identity verification for social media users, impose new...

Majority of people in Turkey oppose bridge, highway privatization, survey finds

More than half of people in Turkey oppose the privatization of public assets such as bridges and highways and believe previous privatizations benefited certain...

5 ISIL militants who killed 3 police officers in Turkey had been acquitted months earlier

Five of the six Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who shot three police officers dead in a pre-dawn raid in...

Turkey calls EU statements on Syria ‘misguided’

Ankara on Friday accused the EU of adopting "misguided" resolutions condemning violence in Syria and Turkey and said the EU legislature was interfering in...

[ANALYSIS] Foreign correspondence in an age of institutional contraction

Yasemin Aydın* When The Washington Post closed its foreign bureaus in February 2026, it was more than an economic decision. With each silenced correspondent, a...

Turks fear earthquakes but lack basic preparedness: survey

Nearly 60 percent of Turkey's population is anxious about earthquakes, yet three out of every four households do not have an emergency kit ready,...

Jailed İstanbul mayor dares Erdoğan to call early elections: report

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, jailed for nearly a year while awaiting trial on corruption charges he denies, challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to call...

European Parliament urges Turkey to end expulsions of foreign Christians and journalists

The European Parliament on Thursday condemned what it called Turkey’s targeted expulsions of foreign Christians and foreign journalists on national security grounds and urged...

160 Turks among ISIL detainees transferred from Syria to Iraq

Thousands of detainees held over Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) links and transferred in recent weeks from northeastern Syria to Iraq...

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