13 C
Frankfurt am Main
- Advertisement -spot_img

ARCHIVE

Yearly Archives: 2019

Erdoğan meets with Tripoli government’s PM amid tension with Haftar forces

Turkey’s president met with the head of Libya’s UN-backed government in İstanbul on Friday amid heightened tensions between Turkey and forces loyal to a...

Syrian refugees less involved in crime than Turkish citizens, interior minister says

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, on Saturday said the crime rate among Syrian refugees was half that of Turkish citizens, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported. “In spite of this,...

Turkish Justice Ministry says 29,487 in jail over Gülen links

Turkey’s Justice Ministry announced on Friday that 29,487 people were currently in prison on charges of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused of...

Turkey stockpiling US-made military equipment in face of sanctions over Russian S-400s: report

Turkey has been stockpiling parts for F-16s and other military equipment in anticipation of US sanctions for acquiring the Russian S-400 air defense system, The National...

Saturday Mothers hold protest with wives of abducted Gülen followers

Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest...

Constitutional Court rejects individual application in unsolved murder case

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has declined to hear the case of an unsolved murder due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the Diken news website...

Pro-gov’t think tank publishes report profiling foreign media workers in Turkey

Turkey’s Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), a pro- government think tank, on Saturday published a 200-page report on journalists who work...

ErdoÄŸan says central bank governor fired for refusing to cut interest rates: report

In a meeting with his party’s deputies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he sacked the central bank governor for rejecting the government’s repeated demands for...

ErdoÄŸan sacks central bank governor over policy differences: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan sacked the governor of the central bank on Saturday as differences between them deepened over the timing of interest rate cuts...

Erdoğan says his party’s current deputies not involved in efforts to launch new party

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has ruled out claims suggesting that a number of deputies from his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are cooperating with...

Court decision enables Turkish purge victims to become lawyers

A decision by an administrative court in Ankara has made it possible for the victims of a government-led purge in the aftermath of a failed coup...

Photos show prominent jailed journalist in hospital in handcuffs

Professor Mümtazer Türköne, a journalist from the now-closed Zaman newspaper who was among dozens of journalists jailed in the aftermath of  a failed coup attempt in July...

Latest news

- Advertisement -spot_img
Liked it? Take a second to support Turkish Minute on Patreon!
Become a patron at Patreon!