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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 Erdoğan insult charges in 5 years

Turkish courts convicted 9,556 people on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 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...

Erdoğan 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...

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

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

Erdoğan speech on language decline ironically turns out to be identical to ex-PM’s

A recent speech delivered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he said the Turkish language faces the threat of decline mainly due to...

İstanbul saw 66.4 percent drop in tourist arrivals in 2020 due to pandemic

İstanbul recorded a decline of 66.4 percent in tourist arrivals in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with only 5 million foreign tourists visiting...

Fighting fears of vaccines high up in Turkey’s mountains

Turkish doctor Sergan Saraçoğlu faces the twin hurdles of a snowstorm in the mountains and local fears of vaccines as he chases after alarmed...

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