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Erdoğan tackles Turkey’s food insecurity with potatoes and onions

Amid skyrocketing food prices in Turkey that deprive many households of the ability to meet even their most basic needs, an aid campaign has...

[Opinion] How poverty came to Turkey

Türkmen Terzi Turkey was never a country in which poverty came to mind. However, the financial desperation of the Turkish public was clearly visible when 5,217...

Turks grapple with poverty as inflation bites

Gülay Avşar is a regular at a market in Ankara's old town, where prices are more reasonable than most other places around the Turkish...

With heavy hearts, Syrians in Turkey pursue new lives

Some are coping, others struggling, but Syrian refugees in Turkey say they dare not follow their dreams and return home while President Bashar al-Assad...

Turkey sees sharp rise in number of poverty-related suicides under AKP rule

A total of 4,801 people have died by suicide in Turkey due to financial problems since 2002, when the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

Turkey bans sale of cyanide to public following series of suicides

The public sale of cyanide compounds has been banned by Turkish authorities in the aftermath of several instances of suicide by cyanide poisoning, Turkish media reported....

Some 10 percent of Turks earn below $150 a month: report

The monthly income of nearly 8.628 million Turks, some 10 percent of the overall population, is below TL 852 ($150), according to Turkey’s Social Security Institution...

11-year-old girl who stole warm clothes for siblings faces punishment

A 11-year-old girl in the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa who stole warm clothes for her four siblings because they were wearing T-shirts in...

Turkish journalist who covered man’s suicide put in police custody

A journalist who covered the story of a 45-year-old father’s suicide in Kocaeli due to his inability to buy a pair of trousers for...

45-year-old father’s suicide leads to blowback on social media, street protest

A father’s death by suicide in the Turkish province of Kocaeli due to his inability to buy a pair of trousers for his son’s...

Education Minister: Turkey has terror, economy and education problems

Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz has said that Turkey has terror, economy and education problems. Speaking during the last day of the Eid-al-Fitr in his hometown...

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