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Turkey faces no risk of returning to FATF grey list, finance minister says

Turkey faces no risk of being put back on the Financial Action Task Force’s “grey list,” Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek said, noting that the...

Lawyers tell ECtHR Turkey has kept Kavala jailed on same discredited evidence despite Strasbourg rulings

Lawyers for imprisoned Turkish businessman and civil society figure Osman Kavala told the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday that Turkey has...

Critically ill Kurdish prisoner dies after repeated pleas for sentence suspension

Mehmet Edip Taşar, a critically ill, 70-year-old Kurdish prisoner, died in a hospital on Tuesday after authorities repeatedly denied his release despite his worsening...

Turkey detains 25 people, including civil servants, over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities have detained 25 people, including current and former civil servants, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Turkish prosecutors order detention of 9 despite ECtHR ruling on messaging app use

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of nine people for using an encrypted messaging app despite rulings by the European Court of Human Rights...

ISIL-linked networks form closed communities, online structures in Turkey: report

Networks linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other Salafi groups have developed localized community structures in Turkey, supported...

Lawmaker asks Turkish FM if Turkey sees US, Israeli strikes on Iran as lawful after anti-Iran statement

A lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition filed a parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday asking Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan whether Ankara considers US and Israeli strikes on...

İstanbul court jails 9 for spreading PKK propaganda in probe of Kurdish Nevruz celebrations

A court in İstanbul jailed nine people pending trial on Wednesday on charges of disseminating propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during...

3 land registry officials arrested in probe over access to justice minister’s property records

Two land registry directors in Çorum and Afyonkarahisar and a land registry official in the southern province of Antalya have been arrested as part...

Suspected gunman in murder of Turkish whistleblower detained in France

French police have detained a suspect that Dutch authorities say was the gunman in the killing of Turkish whistleblower Cemil Önal, a former finance...

Turkey’s broadly defined unemployment rose to 29.7 percent in 2025: TurkStat

Turkey’s broadly defined unemployment rate rose to 29.7 percent in 2025, up 3 percentage points from a year earlier, according to official figures released...

Turkey weighs using gold reserves to defend lira amid Iran war turmoil: report

Turkey’s central bank is considering using part of the country’s roughly $135 billion in gold reserves to help defend the lira against market pressure...

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