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Top court says detention of Gezi Park victim’s mother violated prohibition of ill-treatment

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the violent detention in 2017 of the mother of one of the victims of anti-government Gezi Park protests...

2 Turkish banks suspend Russian Mir payments after US sanctions: report

Turkish lenders İşbank and Denizbank have suspended use of Russian payment system Mir, the banks said on Monday, following a US crackdown on those...

[ANALYSIS] Turkey’s abuse of INTERPOL Red Notices: Findings in the CCF activity report

Ahmet Eren* The Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF), an independent auditing body, has released its 2019-2020 Activity Report. Consisting of seven legal and...

Businessman at center of graft scandal in Turkey gave first lady a luxury handbag: voice recordings

Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab, one of the main suspects in a 2013 corruption investigation in Turkey, bought a luxury handbag worth $42,000 as a...

Nearly 30,000 workers died in work-related accidents during AKP rule: İSİG

Turkey has recorded 29,801 deaths in work-related accidents since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002, the Kronos news...

Turkey to pay for quarter of Russian gas in rubles: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday Turkey would pay for a quarter of its Russian natural gas imports in rubles under a new set...

[ANALYSIS] Does Erdoğan really want to move away from NATO?

Fatih Yurtsever* As the leader of a NATO member state, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the 22nd Summit of Heads of State of the...

Star footballer Şükür, sought on Gülen links, ignored in Netflix series about coach

Famous former Turkish footballer Hakan Şükür, who is sought by Turkey over his alleged links to a faith-based group, is not mentioned in a...

[OPINION] What really lies behind Erdoğan’s push for SCO membership?

Türkmen Terzi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced several times since 2013 his intention to bring Turkey into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). He...

Head of Turkish intelligence talked to Syrian counterpart about return of refugees: report

Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT), met with his Syrian counterpart, Ali Mamlouk, in Syria and discussed the return home...

Social media users investigated for videos showing them hiding money from Erdoğan

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into social media users who recently posted videos showing them panicking and hiding their money when Turkish President...

Greece denies Turkey’s claims about six migrants killed at sea

Greece on Wednesday rejected claims by neighboring Turkey that six migrants including two children drowned at sea after being pushed back by Greek officers...

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