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EU lists seven ‘safe’ countries of origin, tightening asylum rules

The European Union on Wednesday published a list of seven countries it considers "safe,” in a bid to speed up migrant returns by making...

Turkish journalist gets suspended sentence for remarks at book fair

A Turkish court has handed down a three-month suspended sentence to investigative journalist Bahadır Özgür for allegedly insulting the government during a 2022 book...

Ankara says over 175,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from Turkey

More than 175,000 Syrians who fled their country's civil war to neighboring Turkey have returned home since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad in...

US encourages Turkey, Israel to hold deconfliction talks on Syria: report

The US administration has urged Turkey and Israel to establish a military deconfliction mechanism in Syria to prevent potential accidents, according to a report...

Reform package aims for release of 55K inmates amid overcrowding in Turkish prisons

A new judicial reform package drafted by Turkey’s Justice Ministry could lead to the release of up to 55,000 inmates, as the country’s prison...

Turkey’s top election authority rejects appeal to annul main opposition party congress

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has rejected an appeal to annul an extraordinary congress held by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) earlier...

Prominent MP from pro-Kurdish party in critical condition after emergency heart surgery

Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a prominent lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and deputy speaker of parliament, is in critical...

Jailed İstanbul mayor warns a democratic Turkey is essential for global stability

A democratic and secular Turkey is vital for the stability of Europe, the Middle East and the international order, jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu...

Middle East changes drive Turkey’s engagement with PKK: senior leader

Cemil Bayık, co-chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), a political umbrella group linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), recently told BBC Persian...

CoE’s anti-torture committee visits Turkey amid crackdown on protestors over mayor’s arrest

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit...

[INTERVIEW] The goal isn’t to deport Rümeysa. It’s to quash criticism of Israel.

Bünyamin Tekin In late March, Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was walking along a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, when masked, plainclothes...

Turkish court convicts Kurdish journalist of disseminating terrorist propaganda

A Turkish court on Monday convicted Kurdish journalist Hayri Demir of disseminating terrorist propaganda through his reporting, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing...

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