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‘We want peace but have little hope’ say Turkey’s Kurds

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Süleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan that...

Turkey fines Adidas $15,000 for pigskin shoes

Turkey has hit German sporting equipment giant Adidas with a fine of more than $15,000 for failing to inform customers that one of its...

Turkey’s top business association breaks silence, slams gov’t policies in rare rebuke

Turkey's most influential business association delivered a rare and scathing criticism of the government and warned of deepening economic instability, political interference in the...

Turkish oil refining giant Tüpraş to scale back Russian oil purchases due to US sanctions: report

Tüpraş, Turkey’s largest oil refiner, is reducing its imports of Russian crude and petroleum products to avoid running afoul of US sanctions, Bloomberg reported. The...

Turkish court arrests 10 opposition municipal officials on terrorism charges

An İstanbul court ruled for the arrest of 10 senior municipal officials from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Thursday following their...

Turkey seeks legislation to prevent exiled dissidents from claiming damages in its courts

Fatma Zibak Turkey’s Justice Ministry is seeking to amend a law that allows anyone with legal capacity to file a lawsuit in the country, either...

Turkish Jewish business leader faces assassination threats decades after father’s murder

Turkish Jewish business leader İzzet Garih has filed a criminal complaint after receiving death threats and facing an attempted break-in at his company’s headquarters,...

Turkey urges transitional gov’t to assume control of ISIL camps in Syria

Ahmet Yıldız, Turkey’s permanent representative to the United Nations, has called on the transitional government in Syria to take over the camps and prisons...

UN panel calls for immediate release of former general, serving life sentence over alleged role in 2016 coup attempt

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the imprisonment of Akın Öztürk, the former commander of the Turkish Air Force who...

Pro-Erdoğan media hails US DOJ killing NYC mayor’s bribery case tied to Ankara as Turkey’s ‘vindication’

The pro-government media in Turkey is celebrating the US Justice Department’s decision to drop bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, portraying...

German Der Spiegel draws ire of Turkish Health Ministry over report on ‘newborns scandal’

The Turkish Heath Ministry has accused German news outlet Der Spiegel of spreading disinformation and violating the basic principles of journalism in a report...

X blocked access to 126 accounts in Turkey: rights watchdog

Social media platform X blocked access to 126 accounts following the February 5 ruling of an Ankara judge that cited the need for “protection...

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