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Police block civil servants’ march to presidential palace in Ankara amid wage dispute

Police in Ankara blocked a march by the United Public Workers Confederation (Birleşik Kamu-İş) to the presidential palace on Friday after civil servant wage...

Turkey’s main opposition to seek extraordinary parliament session on Gaza during recess

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) will ask parliament to meet in an extraordinary session to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, party...

Turkey’s city of İzmir imposes water cuts every third day as reservoirs near depletion

Turkey’s western city of İzmir, the country’s third-largest metropolis, has announced it will cut water supplies every third day due to worsening drought conditions. The...

Gaza hospital director urges Erdoğan to take concrete steps in open letter

An open letter from Dr. Sahr Hamad, director of the Kemal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, appealed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to move...

Prosecutors charge 16 public officials over building collapse that killed 96 in 2023 quakes

Prosecutors in Turkey's southeastern Kahramanmaraş province filed an indictment against 16 municipal officials over the collapse of an apartment building that killed 96 people...

House arrest lifted for 2 cooperating suspects in İstanbul corruption case

Turkey lifted the house arrest of businessman Aziz İhsan Aktaş and İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality adviser Ertan Yıldız, two cooperating suspects who gave statements under...

Jailed mayor from main opposition challenges suspension from office in court

Zeydan Karalar, the mayor of Turkey's southern city of Adana who was arrested last month as part of a yearlong crackdown on main opposition-run...

Turkey’s foreign visitor arrivals fell 5 pct in July: report

Foreign arrivals in Turkey fell 5 percent in July from a year earlier to 6.97 million, according to official data reported by Reuters on...

Top court finds rights violation in deportation decision on Iranian asylum seeker

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a deportation order for an Iranian asylum seeker violated her constitutional protections, ordering authorities to suspend the deportation...

Turkey’s ‘pit-type’ prisons under fire amid hunger strikes, rights concerns

Rights groups and inmates have stepped up criticism of Turkey’s high-security “pit-type” prisons, saying detainees face overcrowding, lack of sunlight and medical neglect, the...

Teacher held in pretrial detention after giving birth freed following backlash

A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the release of Merve Zayım, a 37-year-old religious education teacher who gave birth while confined to pretrial detention,...

Turkey investigates foreign visitor for pole dancing on flagpole

Authorities in Turkey have launched an investigation into a foreign tourist who was filmed pole dancing on a flagpole bearing the country’s national flag...

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