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EU announces extra 1 billion euros in refugee funding for Turkey

The EU is to give Turkey an extra 1 billion euros ($1.05 billion) in funding to care for the Syrian refugees it is hosting,...

Turkey to begin construction of first national aircraft carrier in early 2025

Turkey will start cutting steel for its first domestically designed aircraft carrier in early 2025, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler announced during a media briefing...

Only 15,000 Turks applied for dual citizenship under Germany’s new law

Only 15,000 out of 600,000 eligible people with Turkish roots in Germany have applied for Turkish citizenship in the first five-and-a-half months since a...

Allegations of Turkey aiding HTS militants ‘wrong,’ Erdoğan’s party says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has rejected claims that Turkey supported Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants as they...

Ruling AKP politician says Israel benefited most from Syria’s regime change

Former Turkish parliamentary speaker, deputy prime minister and a founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bülent Arınç, has claimed that...

Syria’s Kurds call for end to all military operations in the country

Syria's Kurds, who run a semi-autonomous administration in the northeast, called Monday for an end to all fighting in the country and extended a...

Turkish rescuers search infamous jail in Syria

A team of Turkish rescuers began an in-depth search of Syria's infamous Saydnaya prison on Monday, a spokesman for Turkey's AFAD disaster management agency...

‘Endless torture’: Turkish inmate recalls hell of Syrian jails

Finally home in Turkey, Mehmet Ertürk can't eat the bread his wife baked for him. After 20 years in prison in Syria, half of...

Rights advocates, victims shed light on Turkey’s ongoing human rights crisis in virtual panels

Virtual panels organized by Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) on December 10 drew the world's attention to the human rights crisis in Turkey, with...

Turkey continues arrests for terrorism based on scant evidence, minimal due process: US State Dept.

The US State Department said in its “Country Reports on Terrorism 2023” released this week that Turkey continued to detain and arrest individuals for...

Turkey detains 14 more over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police detained 14 individuals on Tuesday over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated house raids in three...

Turkish authorities intensify crackdown on pro-Kurdish opposition in 2024: report

Turkish authorities detained at least 3,948 people and arrested 632 in 2024 as part of an intensified crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and...

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