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Acting mayor of İstanbul district joins ruling AKP after quitting main opposition party

Özlem Vural Gürzel, acting mayor of İstanbul’s Beykoz district, formally joined President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Saturday, just...

İstanbul district mayor among 44 detained in operation targeting municipality run by main opposition

Hasan Mutlu, İstanbul’s Bayrampaşa district mayor, was detained Saturday along with 43 municipal staff on allegations of corruption as part of a year-long crackdown...

Far-right leader says social media must be eradicated, backs Erdoğan beyond term limit

Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has called for the eradication of social media and voiced support for President Recep Tayyip...

Italy, Turkey sign deal to curb irregular migration from Libya

Italy and Turkey signed an agreement on Thursday to step up efforts against irregular migration, focusing on departures from Libya, their foreign ministers said. Italian...

Turkey dominates ECtHR docket with over one-third of pending applications

Turkey is the leading country in the number of pending cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), with 21,800 applications awaiting judgement,...

Hamas presence in Turkey under spotlight after Israeli airstrike on Qatar: report

Turkey is weighing the risk of possible Israeli covert action against Hamas officials on its soil following this week’s airstrike on the group’s leaders...

Turkey denies Israeli strike targeted its military assets in Syria

Turkey’s defense ministry on Thursday denied reports that an Israeli airstrike in Syria had hit Turkish military assets, calling the claims “baseless” and “inaccurate,”...

Turkey cuts key interest rate to 40.5 percent

Turkey’s central bank on Thursday lowered its main interest rate by 2.5 percentage points, a larger cut than expected, as inflation showed signs of...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s gamble to hollow out the main opposition party

Ömer Murat* The appointment of a court-ordered trustee to the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) İstanbul provincial headquarters has shaken Turkey’s political landscape. Widely condemned as a...

Turkey arrests 40 among 53 detained in latest operations over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities have detained 53 people and arrested 40 of them in operations across 19 provinces, accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

Turkey, Egypt warned Hamas of imminent threat before Israeli strike on Qatar: report

Turkey and Egypt warned Hamas leaders to tighten security around their meetings in the weeks before Israel’s airstrike in Doha, The Wall Street Journal...

Third country vessels still carrying cargo to Israel from Turkish ports

Foreign-flagged cargo ships are still sailing from Turkish ports to Israel after Ankara’s August announcement that it had shut ports to Israeli ships and...

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