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Turkey moves to boost birthrates amid demographic concerns

Alarmed by the fact that Turkish women are having fewer children, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has moved to tackle falling birthrates, "a threat greater...

Turkey has no immediate withdrawal plans from Syria: report

Turkey is training and advising Syria's armed forces and helping improve its defenses and has no immediate plans for the withdrawal or relocation of...

Turkish budget airline AJet to start Syria flights on June 16

Turkey's low-cost AJet airline, a subsidiary of national carrier Turkish Airlines, will start flights to Syria from June 16, the transport minister announced on...

Turkish prosecutors investigate main opposition party leader

Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into the leader of the country's main opposition party for allegedly insulting a senior ally of the...

Turkish journalist dies at 42 during medical procedure

Gökhan Özbek, a Turkish journalist, columnist and digital publisher known for his reporting on human rights and the plight of victims of a post-coup...

İzmir city workers end weeklong strike after deal with municipality over wage increases

A weeklong strike by municipal workers in Turkey’s third-largest city ended Wednesday after union leaders accepted a wage offer from the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality,...

Turkey’s religious authority granted power to censor, destroy ‘improper’ Quran translations

Turkey’s top religious authority, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has been granted sweeping new powers to oversee religious content and censor Quran translations...

Turkish journalist questioned over article on Armenian youth released after brief detention

Tuğçe Yılmaz, an editor at the independent Turkish news outlet Bianet who was detained by police during an identity check in İstanbul on Tuesday...

Russia’s Gazprom drops plan to reroute gas to Europe via Turkey: report

Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom has quietly dropped plans to develop a new gas hub in Turkey, effectively closing off a route that had...

Ex-MP, 5 mayors among 22 arrested in corruption probe targeting Turkish opposition

A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of 22 people, including five district mayors from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and a...

[OPINION] The cost of looking away: How the CHP and the secular elite empowered Erdoğan’s autocracy

Abdülhamit Bilici* After the 2013 corruption probes shook the foundations of Turkey’s ruling party, the government of then-prime minister and current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Kurdish elective course enrollment hits record high in Turkey as barriers remain

Nearly 60,000 students in Turkey have enrolled in Kurdish elective courses in middle schools this year, a record high that reflects growing interest in...

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