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Erdoğan’s meeting with former nationalist opposition leader sparks speculation

Meral Akşener, the former nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader, had a surprise meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at his presidential complex...

Pro-Kurdish party calls for early elections after removal of its mayor

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has called for early elections amid the removal of its mayor in a southeastern city...

Third indictment seeks up to 15-year sentences for May Day demonstrators

A new indictment seeks a prison sentence of up to 15-and-a-half years for 12 people, eight of whom are in pretrial detention, for attempting...

Erdoğan hints at removal of more Kurdish mayors from office

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has backed the removal of a democratically elected Kurdish mayor from office in southeastern Turkey, implying that other Kurdish...

Ousted Kurdish mayor given lengthy prison sentence on terrorism charges

A Turkish court has handed down an almost 20-year prison sentence to a Kurdish mayor who was ousted from office earlier this week on...

Mourinho to earn over $11 million a year as Fenerbahçe coach: report

Fenerbahçe says new coach Jose Mourinho is set to earn 10.5 million euros ($11.4 million) a year in salary after he agreed on a...

Erdoğan’s son-in-law sues ex-defense official who downplayed his company’s role in sector

Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technical officer of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) producer Baykar and also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has...

Streaming platforms to pay 1.5 percent of annual revenue to Turkey’s media watchdog

In yet another move tightening its grip on digital media, Turkey’s broadcasting and streaming regulator, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has made...

40 women killed by men, 20 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in May: report

Forty women were murdered by men in Turkey in May, and 20 more died under suspicious circumstances, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing...

NGO report on Turkey’s prisons highlights widespread mistreatment, rights violations

The Human Rights Association (İHD), one of Turkey’s leading advocacy groups, has released its 2023 report on prisons, stating that at least 23,899 rights violations...

Communications expert faces 16 years in jail for alleging Erdoğan relatives sell jet fuel to Israel

Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of up to 16 years for political communications expert Evren Barış Yavuz over a social media post...

Turkey’s top court trims Erdoğan’s power to appoint rectors, sack CB governors

In a rare development, Turkey’s Constitutional Court has made two decisions curtailing presidential powers to appoint university rectors and to replace central bank governors,...

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