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Erdoğan signs controversial media law critics say will stifle free speech

A controversial media law that attracted widespread criticism from rights groups and the opposition on accusations it will further cripple free speech in Turkey...

Diyarbakır Bar officials acquitted of insult in ‘Armenian genocide’ statement

A Turkish court has acquitted the former president and 10 executives of a bar association in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır on charges...

Turkish hot air balloon crash kills 2 Spanish tourists in Cappadocia

Two Spanish tourists were killed and three other injured when their hot air balloon crashed in sudden high winds in the tourist magnet of...

78 post-coup purge victims or their family members have died by suicide since 2016: report

A report drafted by Rafet Irmak and Aziz Yıldırım, two former academics purged by the Turkish government after a failed coup in 2016, reveals...

YouTuber deletes tweets inviting star footballer sought on Gülen links to his program

A Turkish internet celebrity who has been much talked about lately due to his political debate programs on YouTube has deleted tweets in which...

Critical journalists not allowed to cover swearing-in of new member of Turkey’s top court

Journalists critical of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government have been prevented from covering the swearing-in of a new member of Turkey’s Constitutional...

AKP gov’t faces angry backlash, accusations over mine tragedy

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party has come under fire over a mine disaster in northwestern Turkey last Friday that claimed the lives of...

Turkey’s budget records biggest deficit this year: report

Turkey’s central government budget swung to a deficit in September on the back of increased spending and lower corporate tax revenues, Bloomberg reported. The government...

Rights groups call Turkey’s new media law ‘dangerous, dystopian’

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and ARTICLE 19 have condemned the approval of amendments by the Turkish Parliament last week which they said introduce abusive...

Jailed former HDP lawmaker gets 11 more years on terrorist propaganda charges

A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of 11 years, seven months to a former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...

‘They were all young’: Turkish village mourns miners killed in blast

Sitting on the stairs of his house overlooking the Black Sea, the father of a dead miner accepts condolences from relatives and neighbors. His...

92 migrants found on Greek-Turkish border

Ninety-two migrants were found almost naked and bruised after allegedly being forced across the Evros river from Turkey into Greece, Athens said Sunday, a...

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