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Canadian decision to halt tech exports exposes key weakness in Turkish drone industry

Cevheri Güven Turkey’s allegedly domestically built drones, which are mainly produced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law, are in the spotlight again, following a Canadian...

Mob boss, ex-interior minister, former general implicated in dirty war against Kurds meet in resort town

Turkish mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı, former interior minister and police chief Mehmet Ağar, former general Engin Alan and former colonel Korkut Eken have met...

US senator calls for release of female Turkish journalists among other political prisoners

Imprisoned Turkish journalists Ayşenur Parıldak and Hanım Büşra Erdal are among the female political prisoners that US Senator Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on...

Outrage boils over as photos reveal suspicious death of inmate in Turkish prison

Postmortem photos of former Deputy Police Chief Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu, who was found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkey’s Gümüşhane E Type Closed Prison...

Recent arrests aimed at preventing pro-Kurdish HDP from entering elections, former mayor claims

Ayhan Bilgen, a former co-mayor from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who was recently arrested along with 16 other party officials, told BBC...

Missile launched near Turkey’s Black Sea coast after S-400s deployed-video

The Turkish military purportedly shot a missile into the sky near the country's Black Sea coast, where there was an expected test of an...

Turkey sets up new military post amid escalating tensions in Idlib

Turkey has set up a new military post in the village of Qoqfin, situated in a disputed area of northwestern Syria's Idlib province, the...

Erdoğan calls for restructuring professional organizations following changes to bar associations

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday called on parliament to pass a law regulating professional chambers and associations in order to decrease their...

State suppression of the Kurdish language is escalating in Turkey

Cevheri Güven Recent moves by the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeting the Kurdish language have signaled a new wave of crackdowns on Kurds...

Turkish arms exports to Azerbaijan exploded before Nagorno-Karabakh clashes

Turkey's defense exports to Azerbaijan had sextupled over the course of nine months in 2020, before the Azerbaijani army engaged with Armenian forces over...

German police conduct raids on firm suspected of exporting spyware to Turkey

German police have carried out raids on 15 properties with links to the Munich-based surveillance software firm FinFisher over allegations that the firm illegally...

Postmortem photos of inmate point to criminal neglect in Turkish prisons amid pandemic

Photos taken after the death of former Deputy Police Chief Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu, who was previously removed from his job and arrested due to alleged...

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