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Number of inmates in Turkish prisons virtually doubled in last 5 years: report

The number of people in prison per 100,000 of the Turkish population increased from 188 in December 2013 to 323 in December 2018, the Turkish Statistical...

US judge says Halkbank can’t deny knowledge of criminal charges

A US judge on Thursday cited “extraordinary” and “remarkable” meetings two years ago involving top US and Turkish political figures to intervene in a New York...

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu makes it into Bloomberg’s top 50 list of 2019

Bloomberg has chosen Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of İstanbul who won the race for Turkey’s biggest city from the ranks of the country’s main opposition party,...

Religious community leader released pending trial after 22 months

Alparslan Kuytul, the head of a religious community critical of the Turkish government, was released pending trial on Thursday after 22 months of incarceration, the Turkish...

Advisor to nationalist leader suggests vandalizing Gülen movement members’ houses

A chief advisor to Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has called for the vandalizing of houses belonging to followers of the...

Trump meets with Erdoğan amid criticism of Turkey’s Syria incursion: report

President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning participated in an unannounced meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, following months of scrutiny over the administration’s posture toward Ankara...

Businessman gets life sentence for murder of 23-year-old university student

An Ankara court on Wednesday sentenced businessman Çağatay Aksu to life in prison for the murder of Şulet Çet, a 23-year-old university student whose death has...

Turkey ranks 31st out of 37 countries in PISA academic success report

A report released every three years by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has ranked Turkish students in 31st place out of 37 members of the...

Jailed Kurdish politician has no life-threatening condition, hospital says

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-leader of Turkey's Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who was taken to a hospital for an examination on Monday, nearly a...

US senators call on Trump to impose sanctions on Turkey over S-400s

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen called on the Trump administration on Monday to impose sanctions on Turkey over its...

Turkish economy grew 0.9 percent in Q3: report

Turkey's economy grew 0.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, breaking three consecutive quarters of contraction as it shook off a recession that followed...

Turkish online news editor faces up to 15 years for reporting on gov’t whistleblower

A Turkish prosecutor has drafted an indictment for Doğan Akın, the editor and founder of the T24 news website, for his reporting on a government whistleblower’s tweets...

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