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7 Turkish students face jail for allegedly insulting Erdoğan during İmamoğlu protests

A Turkish prosecutor is seeking prison sentences for seven university students accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in slogans chanted at a rally...

Turkey’s brain drain led by engineering and IT graduates, official data show

The rate of brain drain among Turkish university graduates remained at 2 percent in 2024, with engineers and information technology graduates leading the exodus,...

New investigation targets jailed İstanbul mayor, TV executive on allegations of espionage

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his campaign director, both of whom are in pretrial detention as part of another investigation, have also been implicated...

Turkish YouTubers freed after conviction for joke about the Prophet Muhammad

An İstanbul court on Friday sentenced a YouTube host and his guest to seven months in prison but ordered their release due to time...

Baby weighing record 6.15 kilograms born in Turkey’s Bursa province

A baby weighing 6.15 kilograms (13.6 pounds) and measuring 59 centimeters (23 inches) was born by cesarean section in the western Turkish city of...

Turkey’s economic crisis leaves youths jobless and disillusioned

More than half of Turkey’s young people are not working, a new study shows, revealing widespread hopelessness and low life satisfaction among a generation...

Ankara court dismisses case challenging main opposition party congress

An Ankara court on Friday threw out a corruption case against Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on the grounds that it lacked...

[UPDATE] Death toll rises to 17 as migrant boat sinks off Turkey’s Bodrum resort

Sixteen migrants and a people smuggler died when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, the coastguard...

822 children under the age of 6 live in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons: report

A recent report by the Civil Society in the Penal System (CISST) has revealed a growing number of children living behind bars with their...

Four photographers on trial in Turkey for covering protests over mayor’s arrest

Four Turkish photographers, including one from Agence France-Presse, go on trial today in İstanbul and face up to three years in jail after being...

Turkish authorities arrest dozens in operation against notorious İstanbul gang

An İstanbul court on Thursday arrested 94 people after they were detained in an operation targeting an İstanbul-based gang named Daltonlar (Daltons), a loosely...

Veteran Kurdish politician acquitted of terrorism charges that led to his removal as mayor

Prominent Kurdish politician Ahmet Türk, a former co-mayor of Mardin in southeastern Turkey from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), has been...

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