As part of an expanding
crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),
two HDP district co-mayors who were detained in an operation...
Turkey said on Monday
it would join Albania and Kosovo in boycotting the Nobel awards ceremony in
protest of 2019 literature prize laureate Peter Handke, who...
The names of 71
university rectors in Turkey are not included in the citations of international
scholarly publications, according to Professor Engin KaradaÄŸ, who heads the
University...
Turkish
authorities blocked access to a total of 288,310 websites between 2006 and
October 2019, according to a report released by the Freedom of Expression
Association (İFÖD),...
Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ, former co-chair of the Kurdish
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who has been in jail since November 2016, has
said problems with his health remain...
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
has terminated the membership of a former deputy who opposes granting
citizenship to Syrian refugees and posted “We don’t...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Saturday accused allies-turned-rivals of defrauding the state-owned Halkbank in a controversy over the Ä°stanbul Åžehir University, Bloomberg reported.
ErdoÄŸan
leveled...
European Union foreign ministers on Monday debated how
to respond to a controversial agreement between Turkey and Libya that could
give Turkey access to a contested...
Ä°stanbul
Mayor Ekrem Ä°mamoÄŸlu has denied a claim by Transportation Minister Mehmet Cahit
Turhan that his municipality is in agreement with the government for
construction of the...
Turkey was ranked 59th in the 2018 Human Development
Index published by the United Nations on Monday, according to the Ahval news
website.
Its ranking remained the...
