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Opposition party leaders refuse to attend holiday reception at Erdoğan’s palace

Leaders of the opposition parties in Turkey, except for the head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), refused to take part in a reception at the...

Turkey’s Interior Ministry removes another Kurdish mayor

The Interior Ministry on Tuesday removed the mayor of the southeastern town of Cizre from office and replaced him with a district governor, according to the...

[UPDATE] 5 Syrian soldiers killed as regime army, Turkish military clash in northern Syria

Syrian government forces and the Turkish military clashed on Tuesday for the first time since Ankara launched an offensive in northeastern Syria three weeks...

Report reveals at least 663 rights violations in 32 Turkish prisons in 3 months

A report drafted by Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) has revealed that at least 663 rights violations took place in 32 prisons in Turkey’s Marmara region...

Russia sends 300 military police, 20 armored vehicles to Turkish-Syrian border

Russia sent about 300 more military police and more than 20 armored vehicles to Syria on Friday under an accord between Ankara and Moscow that has...

Amnesty accuses Turkey of illegally deporting Syrians into war zone

Turkey spent the months leading up to its military incursion into northeast Syria forcibly deporting refugees to the war-torn country, in advance of attempting to create...

Turkey to introduce new taxation for digital service providers like Google, Facebook

A new omnibus bill on tax regulation calls for the introduction of a 7.5 percent tax on digital service providers such as Google, Facebook and Twitter,...

SGK employees sentenced to prison for checking Erdoğan’s social security record

Five staff members of Turkey’s Social Security Institution (SGK) in Trabzon were sentenced to two years, six months in prison each for looking at President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish Central Bank sharply cuts interest rates

Turkey’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by 2.5 percentage points, deeper than economists had expected, citing an improving inflation outlook, the Financial Times reported....

Erdoğan orders name change of prominent family company seized by gov’t

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded a change in name for the Kayseri-based Boydak Holding, which was seized by the government due to alleged links...

Russia deploys troops to Turkish-Syrian border after deal with Turkey

Russian forces have begun to deploy towards the Turkish-Syrian border as part of a deal to remove Kurdish troops, with units already entering the two key...

Purged police officer killed in clash with terrorists while performing military service

Zekeriya Burak Altınok, one of thousands of police officers removed from their jobs on terrorism charges in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in...

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