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Major Turkish polling company cancels regular pre-election poll

Prominent Turkish polling company KONDA has announced that it will not disclose its pre-election poll for Turkey’s local elections on March 31, the Artı...

Prosecutor asks for new forensic report on Kurdish human rights lawyer’s killing

The Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked for a new report from Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) following a report by the London-based...

Ruling party flag hung from minaret in western Turkey

The flag of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was hung on the minaret of a mosque in Aydın province ahead of local...

15 sentenced to life for 2013 police investigation into corruption in Erdoğan gov’t

The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Monday handed down life sentences to 15 defendants for attempting to overthrow the Turkish government with a...

Man detained for criticizing Turkish minister at rally

A man who publicly criticized Turkish Minister of Interior Affairs Süleyman Soylu during an election rally on Sunday was detained after the minister reprimanded...

Housing sales in February decrease 18.2 percent: TurkStat

Turkey’s housing sales decreased in February by 18.2 percent over the same period last year, according to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), the Diken...

Self-declared religiously conservative youths on the decline in Turkey, poll finds

According to leading polling company KONDA, the number of 15 to 29-year-olds in Turkey who define themselves as religiously conservative has decreased from 28...

AKP campaign jingle broadcast from minaret in Turkey’s Ağrı province

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) election campaign jingle was played on Saturday from the minaret of the Musa Ağa Mosque in Ağrı...

Erdoğan shows New Zealand terrorist attack video at rally

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan showed semi-blurred video footage of a terrorist attack on a New Zealand mosque at a rally in Tekirdağ province...

HDP launches social media campaign as TV stations refuse to air campaign video

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has launched a campaign on social media to spread its campaign video for local elections as Turkish TV...

Turkish court rule to ban HDP report on trustee irregularities

A Turkish court in the eastern province of Siirt has decided to ban a report drafted by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) that...

Jailed Turkish admiral exposes torture he was subjected to: report

Adm. Nejat Atilla Demirhan, who was sentenced to life in prison on charges involving a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016, has detailed...

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