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Syria battles forest fires for third day as Turkey sends help

Syrian emergency crews continued battling forest fires for a third straight day on Saturday in the coastal province of Latakia, with strong winds and...

[ANALYSIS] Turkey faces economic trade-offs as NATO sets ambitious 5 pct defense spending target

Fatih Yurtsever* At the NATO Summit held in The Hague in June, member states agreed on a highly ambitious goal: to raise defense spending to...

Third person dies as firefighters bring İzmir wildfire under control

A forestry worker injured in a wildfire in the Ödemiş district of Turkey’s western İzmir province has died in the hospital, raising the death...

[OPINION] Clicks, code and control: How journalism is being strangled

Tarık Toros* Across the world, fundamental moral values, the principles that have provided social cohesion for centuries, are being systematically undermined. Yet historical patterns suggest that...

Boğaziçi University graduate detained for tearing up diploma in protest of İmamoğlu crackdown

Turkish police on Friday detained a university graduate who tore up his diploma during a graduation ceremony at Boğaziçi University to protest what he...

New indictment charges jailed İstanbul mayor with forging university degree

Turkish prosecutors have filed a new indictment against jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, accusing him of falsifying his university degree more than three decades...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s last card: the Kurdish question as a political tool

*Adem Yavuz Arslan A recent announcement from the two Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) executives suggesting that the outlawed group will soon destroy their weapons...

Turkey’s first lady touts religious tolerance at Vatican as rights violations surge at home

Turkey’s first lady, Emine Erdoğan, met with Pope Leo XIV in a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, promoting interfaith dialogue and urging...

Turkey labeled high risk in global torture index

Turkey has been classified as a high-risk country for torture and ill-treatment in the first edition of a new international index. The Global Torture Index...

Two dead as wildfires rage near western Turkish city of İzmir

An elderly man and a forestry worker died on Thursday in wildfires in Turkey, as firefighters battled high winds fanning two blazes in the...

Int’l delegation urges immediate release of imprisoned PKK leader Öcalan

An international delegation of politicians, academics and activists has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the...

Turkey’s exports to Israel hit $393.7 mln in early 2025 despite official embargo

Turkey exported nearly $394 million worth of goods to Israel in the first five months of 2025, despite the government’s announcement last year of...

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