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Police violence during protests over İstanbul mayor’s arrest ‘may amount to torture’: Amnesty

Amnesty International has urged Turkish authorities to investigate alleged human rights violations by police during mass protests in March, some of which “may amount to...

UBS report shows millionaire numbers rise in Turkey despite real wealth shrinking

A new report by Swiss bank UBS reveals that while the number of dollar millionaires in Turkey surged by more than 8 percent in...

CoE anti-corruption body urges Turkey to act on stalled reforms in parliament, judiciary

A high-level delegation from the Council of Europe’s (CoE) anti-corruption watchdog GRECO on Thursday called on Turkey to take urgent steps to implement long-standing...

Growing number of Turkish youths not in education, employment or training, new report finds

A growing number of young people in Turkey are disengaging from both work and education, according to a new report that warns of long-term...

Turkey boosts border security amid Israel-Iran war, sees no mass migration from Iran: report

Turkey has reinforced security measures along its eastern border with Iran in response to the ongoing war between Israel and the Islamic Republic, a...

Pro-Kurdish party urges Ankara to act after PKK disbands

Leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Wednesday urged the Turkish government to act swiftly to consolidate the peace...

Opposition party accuses Erdoğan government of partnering with US, Israel

The Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) on Wednesday accused the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of serving as a covert ally of Israel...

Trust in news in Turkey plunges to lowest level in a decade, Oxford study finds

Trust in news in Turkey has plunged to its lowest level since 2015, while a pro-government outlet has become the least trusted media organization...

Main opposition will not join constitutional reform talks with Erdoğan’s bloc, senior official says

A senior official from Turkey’s main opposition party said Wednesday that the party will boycott any parliamentary commission or talks on constitutional amendments initiated...

As Israel-Iran war escalates, anxious Iranians seek way home from İstanbul

Dozens of Iranians gathered at a bus station in İstanbul on Tuesday, hoping to return home by land as the war between Israel and...

Turkey detains 56 in expanding crackdown on Gülen movement

Turkish authorities have detained 56 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated operations across multiple provinces in...

Far-right leader sentenced to more than 2 years, released after 148 days in pretrial detention

Ümit Özdağ, the head of Turkey’s ultranationalist Victory Party, was released due to time served from İstanbul’s Silivri Prison on Monday after being sentenced...

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