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[OPINION] Quo vadis, Turkey?

OPINION | MEHMET EFE ÇAMAN It is hard for me to believe what is going on in Turkey nowadays. Turkey used to be a country...

Turkey’s Internet watchdog warns Twitter over popular anti-gov’t hashtags

Ömer Fatih Sayan, the director of Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communication Council (BTK), an Internet watchdog responsible for digital censorship in the country, has...

Akşener defies media embargo on her presidential campaign

Meral Akşener, the İYİ (Good) Party candidate for Turkey’s presidential election on June 24, challenged the lack of media coverage of her campaign, saying...

Woman jailed for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan on social media

A 54-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday in Eskişehir province for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, DHA reported. According to...

No baklava with pistachios for Turks during Ramadan due to high prices

Association of Baklava and Dessert Producers (BAKTAD) chairman Mehmet Yıldırım announced on Saturday that baklava, a traditional Turkish dessert, would not be baked with...

MHP’s Bahçeli calls for amnesty for notorious mafia leaders

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli on Saturday called for amnesty for notorious gang leaders Alaattin Çakıcı and Kürşat Yılmaz, who have both...

JWF: Number of Turkish asylum seekers rising despite restrictions on the right to leave the country

A new report released by the New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) shows a tremendous increase in the number of asylum seekers from Turkey, despite restrictions...

HDP deputy says brother removed from job as doctor for being her brother

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Bektaş has said her brother, a doctor of internal medicine, was removed from his job by...

Yet another journalist put behind bars in Turkey

Managing editor of the now-closed Özgür Gündem daily, Reyhan Çapan, was put in prison on Friday to serve out a 15-month sentence handed down...

Polling guru says opposition freed from idea of AKP’s psychological superiority

Bekir Ağırdır, the general manager of KONDA, one of Turkey’s leading polling companies, said the feeling of “Whatever we do, the AKP wins”has...

Parliament gives legislative power to Cabinet to prepare for change in Turkey’s political system

The Turkish Parliament has provided the Cabinet with the power to pass necessary laws and decrees with the force of law to prepare the...

‘We are bored!’ becomes the new ‘TAMAM’ for Turkish opposition on Twitter

Following a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch convention on Friday in which he...

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