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Unpaid loans sent to debt collectors jump 68 percent in Turkey in a year

The amount of unpaid loans being handled by Turkey’s debt collection companies rose 68 percent in a year to 132 billion lira, a sign...

Looming Armenian elections put rapprochement with Turkey at stake

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election has become a vote on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s efforts to normalize relations with Turkey through border openings, railway...

9 CHP members arrested in probe linked to annulled party congress

Nine members of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have been arrested in an investigation into alleged irregularities at the party’s 2023 congress,...

Jailed İstanbul mayor blames Erdoğan for CHP takeover, calls former party leader a ‘puppet’

Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Sunday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the court-ordered takeover of Turkey’s main opposition party and...

Turkey’s top court annuls digital search law over privacy safeguards

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled a criminal procedure law that allowed judges to authorize searches and the copying and seizing of suspects’ computers and...

Erdoğan reverses order to close liberal İstanbul university after protests

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday reversed his decision to close a liberal private university in İstanbul after protests by students and faculty...

Turkey joins regional call as US, Iran seek to finalize deal to end Middle East war

Turkish representatives joined Middle Eastern leaders and Pakistani officials in a call with US President Donald Trump as Washington and Tehran sought Sunday to...

Human Rights Watch says Turkey damaging democracy as CHP members detained

Human Rights Watch said on Saturday that the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was undermining democracy through “abusive tactics” against the main...

13 delegates of main opposition CHP detained after court voids party congress

Turkish authorities detained 13 delegates from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) after a court declared the party’s 2023 leadership congress legally void,...

Court orders 5 jailed pending trial in general’s son’s alleged murder amid cover-up claims

A Turkish court has ordered five construction site workers jailed pending trial eight years after the death of a retired major general’s son, whose...

Turkey expands presidential control over municipally owned companies

Turkey has expanded presidential control over municipally owned companies, requiring local governments and their majority-owned firms to obtain presidential approval before setting up companies...

Turkish court convicts 257 in e-signature fraud case that exposed state systems

A Turkish court has convicted 257 defendants in a case involving a network accused of using fraudulently obtained electronic signatures of public officials to...

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