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Turkey ends tightening cycle, keeps interest rate at 45 percent

Turkey's central bank maintained its key interest rate at 45 percent on Thursday, marking the end of its monetary tightening cycle after eight consecutive...

Syrian activist critical of Turkey’s treatment of refugees among arrestees charged with espionage

Ahmed Katie, a Syrian human rights activist who went missing in November after his outspoken criticism of Turkey’s worsening treatment of refugees, is among...

Erdoğan signals changes to structure of top courts

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with recent rulings by the country's highest courts and signaled that he is pushing for...

Critics slam ICC prosecutor for meeting with Turkish FM accused of crimes against humanity

Bünyamin Tekin The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor, Karim Khan, is under fire for meeting with Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, on the sidelines of...

Experts attribute gold mine landslide to uncontrollable heap leach pad

Inspections conducted by experts from Karadeniz Technical University (KTÜ) have revealed that an uncontrollable heap leach pad is one of the primary causes of...

DEM Party asks UNESCO to investigate violations of linguistic rights in Turkey

Co-chairpersons of the pro-Kurdish Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) have in letter called on the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO, to send...

Court removes judicial probation measures for 3 Gezi Park defendants

An İstanbul court has lifted judicial probation measures imposed on three defendants in the Gezi Park trial in line with a ruling from the...

Reppression everywhere: Family who fled Erdoğan’s crackdown to be deported from Norway

Bünyamin Tekin Buket (42) and her husband Fatih (48) were once teachers. They found themselves in the middle of a widespread crackdown on civil society...

Pro-Kurdish party holds multilingual meeting in Turkish parliament

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) of Turkey held its weekly meeting in parliament on Tuesday in multiple languages in a...

Erdoğan caused Kurds the greatest suffering, veteran Kurdish politician says

Ahmet Türk, a veteran Kurdish politician, has said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stands as the political leader responsible for inflicting the greatest hardship...

CHP decides to keep controversial mayor of quake-hit city in mayoral race

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has decided to keep a controversial mayor who is blamed for the devastation caused by 2023 earthquakes...

Turkish court finds no crimes against humanity in deadly military arson against Kurdish family

A court in central Turkey has released its reasoned decision in the case of the mass murder of a Kurdish family in a deliberately...

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