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Turkey battles wildfires amid strong winds, heatwave

Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday, as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave, officials said. Wildfires over the past week have led to...

Workers’ Party members briefly detained over slogans at opposition rally in İstanbul

Ten members and executives of the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP), including party council member Arzum Yalçın, were released after being briefly detained over...

Turkey arrests 24 over alleged links to Gülen movement

Turkish authorities have arrested 24 people and placed 26 others under judicial supervision over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Stockholm Center...

Turkish Parliament to establish 51-member commission for peace efforts with PKK

The speaker of Turkey’s parliament has formally asked political parties to submit delegate names for a 51-member parliamentary commission tasked with overseeing the next...

Erdoğan will be tried at top court for $1.47 billion in damages over oil trade with Iraqi Kurdistan: MP

Bünyamin Tekin An opposition lawmaker in Turkey has vowed to hold President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accountable before the country’s top court over a $1.47 billion...

Turkey designates 2 provinces as disaster zones amid devastating wildfires

Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Friday that the western provinces of Bilecik and İzmir had been designated as disaster zones amid ongoing wildfires...

Turkey’s top court sentences 3 former judges in controversial coup trial

Turkey’s Supreme Criminal Court has sentenced three former judges at the Supreme Court of Appeals to almost 13 months in prison each for "repeated...

Women protest in central Turkey over Gaza war, accuse gov’t of hypocrisy in Israel ties

A group of women held a protest outside the provincial headquarters of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the central city of...

Journalists mark Turkey’s Press Day amid arrests and censorship

As journalists marked Turkey’s Press Day on July 24, media unions and opposition lawmakers condemned what they described as the worsening erosion of press...

RTÜK hits pro-opposition network with broadcasting ban, fine

Turkey’s media watchdog has imposed a broadcasting ban and a fine on an opposition-affiliated TV station over remarks made during a political commentary program. The...

Turkey’s main opposition party leads AKP by 8 points among young voters: poll

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leads the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by eight points among young voters in a potential...

Efforts for peace with Kurds spark debate over Turkey’s post-1923 order, founding principles

As Turkey navigates a fragile peace process with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), recent high-level statements are testing the core principles that have...

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