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Turkey adds 1,412 new COVID cases, 19 more deaths

Turkey announced 1,412 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, 109 more than yesterday, bringing the total number of cases to 254,520, according to a chart...

49-year-old journalist diagnosed with cancer in prison dies 2 months after release

Mevlüt Öztaş, 49, a Turkish journalist who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in prison, died on Wednesday after he was released for health reasons...

Turkey registers 1,303 new COVID cases, 23 more deaths

Turkey announced 1,303 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, 40 more than yesterday, bringing the total number of cases to 253,108, according to a chart...

Turkish court bans news stories on rapist who wants to exercise ‘right to be forgotten’

A Turkish court ordered ban on news stories about Recep Çakır, a former national wrestler who was convicted of rape, citing a newly adopted...

Syrian refugee shot dead by drunk, xenophobic Turk

Abdulkadir Davud, 21, a Syrian refugee living in Turkey, was shot dead over the weekend in İstanbul by a drunk man who had a...

Gov’t-critical Turkish newspaper’s request to launch TV channel delayed for 9 months

Turkey’s Sözcü daily, a nationalist media outlet that is critical of the government, has accused the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) of hampering...

Turkey has removed 146 mayors from Kurdish parties in 4 years, HDP report says

The Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Tuesday published an 84-page report on the removal of HDP mayors in the last four years, after...

Young woman raped by Turkish soldier dies 33 days after attempting suicide

An 18-year-old woman who was repeatedly raped by a specialist sergeant in Turkey’s Southeast in July died in a hospital on Tuesday, 33 days...

Doctor recounts details of brutal torture of Turkish soldiers after 2016 coup

A medical doctor who was assigned to a large detention center in Ankara a few days after a coup attempt in July 2016 has...

Turkey orders detention of 141 over Gülen links in post-coup crackdown

Turkish prosecutors in Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir ordered the detention of 141 alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement on Tuesday in the latest...

Turkey announces 1,263 new COVID cases, death toll exceeds 6,000

Turkey announced 1,263 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, 30 more than yesterday, bringing the total number of cases to 251,805, according to a chart...

Erdoğan files TL 2 million lawsuit against opposition leader for offshore wealth claims

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against the head of the country’s main opposition party for TL 2 million ($273,000) in...

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