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Turkey saw 56 incidents of transnational repression between 2014-2021: Freedom House report

A Freedom House case study focusing on Turkey as a host country recently said that many dissidents fleeing repression in Central Asia, Egypt, Russia,...

14.8 million Turks suffer from insufficient food consumption, UN data show

HungerMap, a near real-time food security monitoring system of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has revealed that 14.8 million people are experiencing...

Greeks have a duty to give shelter to Turkish democrats fleeing Erdoğan: Varoufakis

Bünyamin Tekin "Democrats have a duty, whenever there is a dictatorial turn in any neighboring country, to give shelter and asylum to fellow democrats escaping...

Bosporus sea trade unaffected by Ukraine war, sanctions

At the gates of the Black Sea, trade is in full swing as freighters and oil tankers sail from the heart of Istanbul to...

[ANALYSIS] Can Turkey alone cancel NATO exercises in the Black Sea?

Fatih Yurtsever* Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is making statements that will further exacerbate the tense atmosphere in NATO countries against Turkey due to its...

Iran slams Turkey’s upstream dam-building activity

Iran on Tuesday described as "unacceptable" upstream dam-building by neighboring Turkey on shared waterways, calling on its neighbor to cease such activity, Agence France-Presse...

Eight Turks among 12 kidnapped by gang on bus in Haiti

Twelve people, eight of them Turkish citizens, were kidnapped while travelling by bus in Haiti, officials said Monday, as the Caribbean country struggles with...

[ANALYSIS] Why does Turkey pay a higher price for Russian natural gas than necessary?

Fatih Yurtsever* According to a February 2022 report from the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EDPK), Russia supplies 38 percent of Turkey's natural gas.   Russia exports...

Teachers working at Gülen schools deported from Liberia

The Liberian government on April 22 summarily deported Turkish and Azeri teachers and their families -- 12 people in all -- working at a...

Grey Wolves vandalize Armenian genocide memorial in Brussels

Members of the Grey Wolves, the far-right Ülkücü movement that enjoys a well-organized structure in Turkey and has thousands of followers in some European...

UN cites conviction of Kosovar officials in Turkish intelligence case as progress in the country’s rule of law

The United Nations hailed the court proceedings against Kosovar officials who were involved in the abduction of critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

4 Turks among 5 arrested in cocaine bust off Spain’s Canary Islands

Five people including four Turkish citizens were arrested when a fishing boat carrying nearly three tons of cocaine was intercepted off the Canary Islands,...

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