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Cyprus slams Turkey over asylum-seeker ‘burden’

Cyprus hit out at Turkey on Friday for acts it said were behind the creation of a new migration route that had "disproportionally burdened"...

Former intel chief strengthens suspicions of MÄ°T role in killing of 3 Kurdish women in Paris

İsmail Hakkı Pekin, a former intelligence chief with the Turkish General Staff, has inadvertently strengthened suspicions about the involvement of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...

Turkey hires US law firm to lobby for reentry to F-35 fighter jet program

Turkey’s state-owned Defense Industry Technologies (SSTEK) has signed a contract worth $750,000 with one of Washington’s most prestigious law firms in an attempt to...

Enforced disappearances worryingly common in Turkey, say human rights activists

Enforced disappearances are becoming worryingly common in Turkey, and most disappearances are not effectively investigated by prosecutors, said an international group of human rights...

Nearly 10,000 people convicted on ErdoÄŸan insult charges in 5 years

Turkish courts convicted 9,556 people on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan over the course of five years, an opposition lawmaker has revealed. Main...

Ankara police accused of abducting 3 university students in broad daylight

Ankara police have been accused of abducting three university students today and abandoning them in distant parts of the city after threatening and beating...

Happiness level among Turkish people declined in 2020: survey

The number of people over the age of 18 who describe themselves as happy declined in Turkey in 2020, dropping to 48.2 percent of...

ErdoÄŸan files TL 500,000 lawsuit against opposition leader over Gara remarks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against the head of the country’s main opposition party for TL 500,000 ($71,000) in damages...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for police violence against journalist in 2015 protest

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the government to pay TL 15,000 ($2,160) in damages to journalist Beyza Kural, who was subjected to ill-treatment by...

Turkey keeps main interest rate steady at 17 percent

Turkey's central bank on Thursday kept its main interest rate unchanged at 17 percent for the second month in a row to support a...

71-year-old jailed author Altan fails to get access to COVID-19 vaccine

Prominent Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan, 71, who has been behind bars for some five years, has failed to get a response to...

ErdoÄŸan defiant as opposition puts blame on him for failed operation in Iraq

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan remained defiant on Wednesday in the wake of statements from opposition parties holding him responsible for the killing of...

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