Turkish Minute

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has unleashed a wave of public spending in recent months to win back support from disenchanted voters ahead of...

Some 60,000 Syrian refugees have returned home in the aftermath of massive earthquakes in southeastern Turkey, according to Turkish Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar,...

Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it...

Amnesty International looked back at the human rights violations that took place in Turkey throughout 2022 in its annual report, released Monday, recounting ongoing human...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued an appeal for $550 million for 31 projects aimed at restoring livelihoods, public services and cultural heritage...

Three Turkish police officers have been arrested for allegedly beating a 14-year-old Kurdish boy during Nevruz celebrations in the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır,...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to release an employee of the pro-Kurdish Yeni Yaşam newspaper as well as all journalists, media workers...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Friday criticized a report by the US State Department on human rights practices in the country, dismissing it as...

Armenia and Turkey have agreed to open their common border for citizens of third countries and persons with diplomatic passports prior to the commencement...

Iraq has suspended crude exports of 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and northern Kirkuk fields after winning a long-running...

Fatih Yurtsever* On March 17, 2023, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova,...

Eighty-nine people have over the past week been detained on warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based...