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Jailed İstanbul mayor calls searches of family summer homes ‘harassment’

Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has condemned recent searches of the summer homes of his wife and father as politically motivated harassment, calling on...

Turkey’s prison population exceeds capacity by nearly 100,000 amid recent surge in arrests

The number of people held in Turkish prisons rose by over 14,000 in three months, pushing the total inmate population nearly 100,000 over official...

Erdoğan to receive pro-Kurdish party delegation behind peace talks with Öcalan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet on Thursday with a delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), whose members played...

Turkey triples poverty aid in lira, but inflation leaves more people with less

Turkey’s ruling party has tripled poverty-related aid spending since 2021, but the real value of assistance per person has declined, according to official data...

7 journalists indicted for covering protests over İstanbul mayor’s arrest

Turkish prosecutors have indicted seven journalists who were held in pretrial detention for several days last month for covering mass protests following the arrest of...

Berkin Elvan’s parents get suspended sentences on conviction of insulting Erdoğan

The parents of Berkin Elvan, a teenager who was killed during Turkey’s 2013 anti-government Gezi Park protests, have been handed down suspended sentences on...

Turkish court rejects appeal of Swedish journalist’s pretrial detention

A Turkish court has rejected an appeal challenging the pretrial detention of Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who is being held on terrorism-related charges at...

Erdoğan, finance minister see opportunity in US tariffs, do not expect disruptions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek have adopted an optimistic stance in the face of new US tariffs, saying the...

Pro-Turkey Syrian groups reduce presence in Kurdish area: official

Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in a historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north that they have controlled since 2018,...

Turkish students stage fresh protests in İstanbul and Ankara

Several thousand Turkish students protested on Tuesday in İstanbul and Ankara, reviving demonstrations after the March 19 detention of İstanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu...

US, Russia to meet Thursday in İstanbul on restoring embassy operations

The United States and Russia will hold talks on Thursday in İstanbul on restoring some of their embassy operations that have been drastically scaled...

Turkey, Israel do not seek war, but the risk of conflict in Syria is real: analysts

Bünyamin Tekin Analysts warn that Turkey and Israel are on a dangerous trajectory in Syria, where their conflicting strategic visions and expanding military footprints have...

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