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Judge orders arrest of Faladdin founder over AI-powered fortune-telling gains

A Turkish court on Thursday arrested Sertaç Taşdelen, founder of the fortune-telling apps Faladdin and Binnaz, on charges of generating illicit income through digital...

Former head of Turkish cultural institute detained in corruption probe

Turkish police have detained Şeref Ateş, the former head of the Yunus Emre Institute, as part of a corruption investigation into alleged abuse of...

CHP files criminal complaint over allegations of rigging in exam for secondary education

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) filed a criminal complaint on Friday over alleged wrongdoing in the 2025 High School Placement Exam (LGS),...

Turkey expands part-time work rights for civil servants to support families

Turkey has enacted new regulations granting all male and female civil servants the right to work part-time following the birth or adoption of a...

Turkey secretly plots to bypass INTERPOL rules to target exiled journalist in Sweden

A classified memo issued by Turkey’s Security General Directorate (Emniyet) reveals covert efforts to circumvent INTERPOL rules in order to secure an international arrest...

Turkey detains 153 suspected ISIL members

Turkey has detained 153 suspected members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in nationwide raids, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya...

Syrian Kurdish official rejects Turkish calls to lay down arms, says SDF seeks integration instead

A top Syrian Kurdish official has rejected Turkish calls for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to give up their weapons as part of Ankara’s...

Turkey unveils AI-supported Steel Dome system for layered air defense

Haluk Görgün, the head of Turkey’s top defense procurement agency, on Wednesday unveiled a new artificial intelligence-supported air defense system named “Çelik Kubbe” (Steel...

Court denies request to hear tourism minister in trial over deadly hotel fire in northwestern Turkey

A Turkish court on Thursday rejected a request to hear Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy as a witness in a trial concerning...

Pope Leo says he hopes to visit Turkey in the coming months

Pope Leo XIV said on Thursday that he hoped to visit Turkey in the coming months for a Christian religious commemoration, in what could...

Villagers begin hunger strike to protest bill enabling mining in olive-producing areas

A group of villagers from across Turkey who have spent the past two weeks protesting in front of the Turkish Parliament against a controversial...

Jailed Turkish journalist indicted for allegedly threatening President Erdoğan

Well-known Turkish journalist Fatih Altaylı, who has been in pretrial detention since June 22, has been indicted on charges of threatening President Recep Tayyip...

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