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Greece asks EU to intervene over alleged unlawful fishing by Turkish vessels

Greece has asked the European Union to intervene in what it says is illegal fishing by Turkish vessels in the eastern Mediterranean and violations...

Turkish court sentences Kurdish journalist to more than 4 years for allegedly aiding terrorist organization

A Turkish court in the southeastern province of Van on Thursday sentenced Kurdish journalist Reyhan Hacıoğlu to four years, two months in prison for...

Turkish Parliament rejects proposal on Kurdish language rights

Turkey’s parliament on Thursday rejected a proposal by the country’s pro-Kurdish party to investigate barriers to the public use of the Kurdish language, the...

Case against Gülen-linked New York school fuels concerns of Turkey’s transnational repression in US

A court case involving a New York school linked to the faith-based Gülen movement has fueled concerns that Turkey is extending its yearslong crackdown on the...

Former deputy police chief warns of burnout, pressure in Turkish force amid rising suicides

Orhan Sait Berber Former Ankara deputy police chief İsmail Öztürk has warned that long working hours, pressure from superiors and weakened recruitment standards are fueling...

Turkey paid city hospital operators nearly 5 times cancer-control budget in 4 months

Turkey’s Health Ministry paid 57.56 billion lira ($1.27 billion) to companies operating city hospitals built under the public-private partnership (PPP) model in the first...

Turkish police detain 32 in probes targeting CHP-run municipalities

Turkish police on Friday detained 32 people in three separate investigations targeting municipalities run by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in İstanbul...

New Gaza-bound flotilla sets sail from Turkey: organizer

Dozens of vessels set sail from southwestern Turkey on Thursday as part of a new aid flotilla bound for Gaza, an organizer told Agence...

Turkey detains 288 people in operation targeting suspected street-level drug sales

Turkish authorities detained 288 people in a 23-province narcotics operation based in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, officials said Thursday, describing the raids as...

Nearly one in four young people in Turkey neither working nor in school, official data show

Nearly one in four young people in Turkey were neither in education nor employment in 2025, with the rate rising to 30.9 percent among...

Pro-Erdoğan commentator detained in illegal betting operation

Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a pro-government commentator and a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was detained Thursday as part of an illegal...

Turkey’s central bank raises 2026 inflation target to 24 percent from 16 percent

Turkey’s central bank on Thursday raised its end-2026 inflation target to 24 percent from 16 percent, acknowledging that inflation is no longer expected to...

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